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react-doctor/ink-no-live-hooks-in-render-to-string

Inert input hook used during string rendering

  • Category: Bugs
  • Severity: error
  • Source: oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
  • Framework: global
  • Enabled when: Ink >= 6.8.0
  • Tags: ink
  • Default: Enabled

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Reported pattern

import { renderToString, Text, useInput } from "ink";

const App = () => {
  useInput(() => {});
  return <Text>Snapshot</Text>;
};

renderToString(<App />);

Corrected pattern

import { renderToString, Text } from "ink";

const App = () => <Text>Snapshot</Text>;

renderToString(<App />);

How to fix

Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.

Copyable fix prompt

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Fix every confirmed react-doctor/ink-no-live-hooks-in-render-to-string diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Keep input subscriptions out of components used only by renderToString().
Reference transformation:Before:
import { renderToString, Text, useInput } from "ink";

const App = () => {
  useInput(() => {});
  return <Text>Snapshot</Text>;
};

renderToString(<App />);
After:
import { renderToString, Text } from "ink";

const App = () => <Text>Snapshot</Text>;

renderToString(<App />);
Constraints: - Confirm the reported code matches the Before pattern. - Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause. - Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic. - Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions. - Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations. - Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly. - Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code. - Confirm this rule is enabled for the project: Ink >= 6.8.0. Verification: - Run focused tests for the changed behavior. - Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears. - Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.

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