Handle React onDoubleClick and single onClick for same element

Question

When I add a single onClick event to an element as well as an onDoubleClick event to the same element, the single click is triggered on the double click as well. I'd like to seperate it out so only one event is fired for single or double. I found some examples in Jquery, but I wanted a clean function for React.

 handleClick = () => {
   console.log('only fire click')
 }

 handleDoubleClick = () => {
   console.log('only fire double click')
 }

 render () {
  return <Element 
             onClick={evt => this.handleClick}
             onDoubleClick={evt => this.handleDoubleClick} 
         ></Element>
 }

Answer 1

Based on the other snippets I found for jquery, I created this simple function to spawn the correct event based on the clicks. Hopefully this helps other React'ers.

componentWillMount = props => {
  this.clickTimeout = null
}

handleClicks = () => {
  if (this.clickTimeout !== null) {
    console.log('double click executes')
    clearTimeout(this.clickTimeout)
    this.clickTimeout = null
  } else {
    console.log('single click')  
    this.clickTimeout = setTimeout(()=>{
    console.log('first click executes ')
    clearTimeout(this.clickTimeout)
      this.clickTimeout = null
    }, 2000)
  }
}

render () {
  return <Element 
             onClick={evt => this.handleClicks}
         ></Element>
}