Just mark that expression with ^js.

You can find a lot by that warning - both here and online.

that stopped the warning but when I try to call the function, it throws an error stating that it isn't a function

Well, then the import is probably incorrect. If you're using shadow-cljs, there's a whole section in its documentation with examples and explanation on why some things work the way they do.

thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look, it's just strange that the components render at all.

Probably that error is thrown at some point after the rendering is done. Or something catches that error and reports it instead of re-throwing it.