Container element that automatically animates height changes when children change size

AnimatedHeightContainer.js

import React from 'react'
import { string, object } from 'prop-types'

import styles from './AnimatedHeightContainer.css'

class AnimatedHeightContainer extends React.Component {

    static propTypes = {
        className: string,
        style: object,
    }

    constructor () {
        super()
        this.el = null
        this.manualUpdate = this.manualUpdate.bind(this)
    }

    componentDidMount () {
        this.manualUpdate()
        window.addEventListener('resize', this.manualUpdate)
    }

    componentWillUnmount () {
        window.removeEventListener('resize', this.manualUpdate)
    }

    componentDidUpdate () {
        this.manualUpdate()
    }

    async manualUpdate () {

        const animationFrame = async () => new Promise(res => requestAnimationFrame(() => res()))

        // Compute the height of the content
        const originalHeight = this.el.style.height
        this.el.style.height = 'auto'
        const computedHeight = this.el.getBoundingClientRect().height
        await animationFrame() // [0]
        this.el.style.height = originalHeight

        // Manually set the height to the computed height to force a css transition
        // (this is needed since css won't transition to 'auto')
        await animationFrame()
        this.el.style.height = computedHeight + 'px'

        // [0] If we have multiple AnimatedHeightContainer's nested, the ancestor's height
        // calculation (above) is dependent on all it's decendant's computed heights
        // (i.e height: auto) So we need to pause somehow until they've all been
        // calculated.
        // All the browsers seem to handle this timing stuff differently. setTimeout
        // doesn't work half the time on Chrome, but requestAnimationFrame results in
        // a 1-frame flash of bad animation on Safari. I've picked the lesser of two
        // evils for now.
    }

    render () {
        return (
            <div
                className={`${styles.container} ${this.props.className}`}
                style={this.props.style}
                ref={el => this.el = el}
            >
                {this.props.children}
            </div>
        )
    }

}

export default AnimatedHeightContainer