Minified React error #200

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Minified React error #200; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=200

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/front-end-libraries/react/render-a-class-component-to-the-dom

Your code so far



class TypesOfFood extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>Types of Food:</h1>
        {/* change code below this line */}
        <Fruits />
        <Vegetables />
        {/* change code above this line */}
      </div>
    );
  }
};

// change code below this line
ReactDOM.render(<TypesOfFood />, 'challenge-node');

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/front-end-libraries/react/render-a-class-component-to-the-dom

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ReactDom.render() requires a DOM element as the second parameter, as the error says: " Target container is not a DOM element."

So, you have to provide a DOM element, not a string, like this:
document.getElementById('challenge-node')