remotion-dev/remotion · error · Error

No JSX nodes were specified for duplication

Error message

No JSX nodes were specified for duplication

What it means

duplicateJsxNode requires a non-empty array of JSX nodes to duplicate. Passing an empty nodes array is a caller bug and throws immediately.

Source

Thrown at packages/browser-studio/src/browser-studio-operations.ts:1338

				throw new Error('Could not delete JSX nodes');
			}

			return {success: true, nodePathMutation};
		} catch (error) {
			return {
				success: false,
				reason: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
				stack: error instanceof Error && error.stack ? error.stack : '',
			};
		}
	};

	const duplicateJsxNode: BrowserStudioOperations['duplicateJsxNode'] = async ({
		nodes,
	}) => {
		try {
			if (nodes.length === 0) {
				throw new Error('No JSX nodes were specified for duplication');
			}

			const project = getProject();
			const nodesByFile = new Map<
				string,
				(typeof nodes)[number]['nodePath'][]
			>();
			for (const node of nodes) {
				const fileName = findProjectFile({
					filePath: node.fileName,
					project,
				});
				const fileNodes = nodesByFile.get(fileName) ?? [];
				fileNodes.push(node.nodePath);
				nodesByFile.set(fileName, fileNodes);
			}

			const updates = await Promise.all(

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Solutions

1. Guard the call: only invoke duplicateJsxNode when the selection is non-empty
2. Fix the caller that builds the nodes array from selection state
3. Check for a race where selection was cleared before the operation ran

Example fix

// before
await ops.duplicateJsxNode({nodes});

// after
if (nodes.length > 0) {
  await ops.duplicateJsxNode({nodes});
}

if (nodes.length === 0) { return; /* nothing to duplicate */ }

const hasNodes = (n: {nodePath: unknown}[]) => n.length > 0;

When it happens

Trigger: Calling browserStudioOperations.duplicateJsxNode({nodes: []}), e.g. the UI invoking duplicate with an empty selection or a caller mapping over an empty selection list.

Common situations: A keyboard shortcut or context-menu handler firing with no nodes selected, or a selection state that was cleared before the duplicate action ran.

Related errors

• Only HTTP(S) URLs can be imported
• Remote asset exceeds the 50MB size limit
• Remote asset is not a supported image
• Invalid public file path: ${path}
• No JSX nodes were specified for deletion

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