getInitialProps in children components

[jordanell]

I have a use case when I have a page concerning some object, say a "Book". I use getInitialProps to load the book. On the book page I also have tabs to display some hasMany relationships like "Authors". The "Authors" tab is a child component of the "Book" page component and ideally I would like to only load authors once the tab is clicked and this child component is mounted.

Are there any plans to allow getInitialProps in child components? Is there a workaround to this issue I am not seeing?

[timneutkens]

Are there any plans to allow getInitialProps in child components? Is there a workaround to this issue I am not seeing?

TLDR is no. the long answer is described here: #192

In your case you can actually just use componentDidMount to do the fetching when the Authors component is loaded.

[arunoda]

@timneutkens Thanks for the reference