Why react-document-meta instead of react-helmet?

[danilobuerger]

See title :-)

[danieljuhl]

Firstly, because it uses another logic for merging, and secondly, because react-document-meta existed before react-helmet 😃

[danilobuerger]

1. react-helmet seems to be able to render more attributes, are you planning on expanding those?
2. would you mind giving a short explanation on how merging differs?

[danieljuhl]

They are actually related... yes, we have a plan and we are working on expanding to allow (almost) any meta tags.

react-helmet gives you the ability to add an array, but that limits the ability to merge nested data, because the code does not know which ones to keep (unchanged), which to change and which to delete. So you actually end up with limited control of the actual meta tags rendered.

We are working on an implementation much like react-helmet, but we are aiming at one, that solves to merging issue.

[danilobuerger]

What i dislike about react-helmet, and thus looking for alternatives, is that you can't render children with it and you always end up with:

<div>
  <Helmet />
  {children}
</div>

instead of

<Helmet>{children}</Helmet>

which is possible with react-document-meta as far as i skimmed over the code?