Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'direction') React JS Material Table - reactjs

Question

After installing the Material Table using React JS and mapping the data to it, this error will be displayed on the console while running the application. The reason for this is hard for me to imagine.
Below is the table I developed.
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const empList = [
{ id: 1, name: "Neeraj", email: 'neeraj#gmail.com', phone: [phone], city: "Bangalore" },
{ id: 2, name: "Raj", email: 'raj#gmail.com', phone: [phone], city: "Chennai" },
{ id: 3, name: "David", email: 'david342#gmail.com', phone: [phone], city: "Jaipur" },
{ id: 4, name: "Vikas", email: 'vikas75#gmail.com', phone: [phone], city: "Hyderabad" },
]
const [data, setData] = useState(empList)
const columns = [
{ title: "ID", field: "id", editable: false },
{ title: "Name", field: "name" },
{ title: "Email", field: "email" },
{ title: "Phone Number", field: 'phone', },
{ title: "City", field: "city", }
]
<h5>
List of Services
</h5>
<MaterialTable
title="Employee Data"
data={data}
columns={columns}
/>
</div>`

Answer 1

I have also encountered the same bug and it seems that they haven't covered the case that no theming is provided. So, in order for the MaterialTable to work properly you need at least the following implementation:
import * as React from 'react';
import MaterialTable from 'material-table';
import { ThemeProvider, createTheme } from '#mui/material';
export class DataGridReact extends React.Component {
public render(): JSX.Element {
const defaultMaterialTheme = createTheme();
return(
<div style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
/>
<ThemeProvider theme={defaultMaterialTheme}>
<MaterialTable
columns={[
{ title: 'Name', field: 'name' },
{ title: 'Surname', field: 'surname' },
{ title: 'Birth Year', field: 'birthYear', type: 'numeric' },
{ title: 'Birth City', field: 'birthCity', lookup: { 1: 'Linz', 2: 'Vöcklabruck', 3: 'Salzburg' } }
]}
data={[
{ name: 'Max', surname: 'Mustermann', birthYear: 1987, birthCity: 1 },
{ name: 'Cindy', surname: 'Musterfrau', birthYear: 1995, birthCity: 2 }
]}
title="Personen"
/>
</ThemeProvider>
</div>
);
}
}

Answer 2

So I figured out the solution. If your current version of material table is 2.0.3, just uninstall your version and re-install version 1.69.3. This will solve the issue, it worked for me. They have released the 2.0.3 version quite recently (10 days back) and it seems to have bugs and I guess that's the reason why you and me faced issues.

Answer 3

I tried all possible things but it seems to have a problem with the material-table package itself. I tried to install the v1.69.3 also, but then it showed some 19 errors all of which were from the Metrial-Table Package,
which shows that it is really buggy. With some other versions it showed some 20 errors all from the package itself, these errors were silenced after I reinstall #material-ui/core as mentioned on their website https://material-table.com/#/docs/install:~:text=npm%20install%20material%2Dtable%20%2D%2Dsave%0Anpm%20install%20%40material%2Dui/core%20%2D%2Dsave, But the problem that the table is not showing is still there.
Finally installing the very old release having dependency of react version older than 16, helped me.
You can run :
npm uninstall material-table
then run following:
npm install material-table#1.36.0 --save
and then check if it works,
if not try to run
npm install #material-ui/core --save
or
npm install in the terminal.
I hope it will work for you to help you get running, but I noticed though the table shows but it disturbs some functionlaity of material ui itself.

Answer 4

So i had the same problem on some pcs and not on others. Figured out the issue was due to the node js version. so the following worked for me:
changing to material-table version to 1.69.3 or 1.36.0 works but it was
messing up the styling of my other mui components. So shifted back to
material-table 2.0.3
I was using node version 14.19.0 so changed it to 16.5.1 using nvm.
delete the node modules completely shift+ delete
npm i to install all dependencies.(remember during this step the node
version should be 16.5 , so check once using node -v)
npm start

Answer 5

I updated mui's packages, using:
yarn upgrade #mui/icons-material #mui/material #mui/styles --latest since I was using material-table 2.0.2.
then don't froget to wrap the table with the ThemeProvider: ( THANKS #nikried FOR your answer, it was very helpful! )
import * as React from 'react';
import MaterialTable from 'material-table';
import { ThemeProvider, createTheme } from '#mui/material';
export function SimpleExample () {
const defaultMaterialTheme = createTheme();
return(
<div style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>
<ThemeProvider theme={defaultMaterialTheme}>
<MaterialTable
columns={columns}
data={data}
/>
</ThemeProvider>
</div>
);
}
}
if you have other problems, don't forget to check the peerDependencies of material-table inside node_modules, and try to use the same package's version montioned to avoid all the possible conflicts.