It turns out that forwardRef was just another one of the issues. If you add a method to the name prop like name.toUpperCase() TS will argue that the value can be null even when you give it the default value and it doesn't complain when implementing <DisplayName />. This describes the issue in stateless functions with defaultProps. It doesn't look like this has really been solved. github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/is...
Hotell's solution does work thought codesandbox.io/s/fast-pond-lhno0
It turns out that
forwardRefwas just another one of the issues. If you add a method to thenameprop likename.toUpperCase()TS will argue that the value can be null even when you give it the default value and it doesn't complain when implementing<DisplayName />. This describes the issue in stateless functions with defaultProps. It doesn't look like this has really been solved. github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/is...Hotell's solution does work thought codesandbox.io/s/fast-pond-lhno0
Thanks for the clarification!