How can I make use of Error boundaries in functional React components?

Solution 1:

As of v16.2.0, there's no way to turn a functional component into an error boundary.

The React docs are clear about that, although you're free to reuse them as many times as you wish:

The componentDidCatch() method works like a JavaScript catch {} block, but for components. Only class components can be error boundaries. In practice, most of the time you’ll want to declare an error boundary component once and use it throughout your application.

Also bear in mind that try/catch blocks won't work on all cases.
If a component deep in the hierarchy tries to updates and fails, the try/catch block in one of the parents won't work -- because it isn't necessarily updating together with the child.

Solution 2:

There is an implementation that can handle with non-existent functionalities for a functional component such as componentDidCatch and deriveStateFromError.

According to the author, it is based on React.memo().

The proposed solution is greatly inspired by the new React.memo() API.

import Catch from "./functional-error-boundary"

type Props = {
  children: React.ReactNode
}

const MyErrorBoundary = Catch(function MyErrorBoundary(props: Props, error?: Error) {
  if (error) {
    return (
      <div className="error-screen">
        <h2>An error has occured</h2>
        <h4>{error.message}</h4>
      </div>
    )
  } else {
    return <React.Fragment>{props.children}</React.Fragment>
  }
})

reference and API here

Solution 3:

As mentioned already, the React team has not yet implemented a hook equivalent, and there are no published timelines for a hook implementation.

A few third party packages on npm implement error boundary hooks. I published react-use-error-boundary, attempting to recreate an API similar to useErrorBoundary from Preact.

Solution 4:

Official React team not provided Error boundary support for functional component. We can achieve error boundary for functional component using npm package. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-error-boundary