React 16.8

[dunatron]

Any chance this module can be upgraded to use React 16.8?
This will allow developers to develop their SilverStripe CMS modules with hooks.

[robbieaverill]

Hi @dunatron, we've updated to 16.6 in SilverStripe 4.4, so could probably update to 16.8 (or higher) in a newer minor release.

[dunatron]

Hi @robbieaverill That would be fantastic!
I would recommend 16.8.6 and not the ^16.8 as it seems to cause a few issues and treats it as 16.7 which will not include hooks.

[ScopeyNZ]

At a quick glance this looks pretty low impact going from 16.6->16.8. Would it be too unrealistic to try and get this in now while 4.4 is still a RC?

[unclecheese]

We've already released 4.4.0-RC, and while a minor upgrade for React may be low impact, it doesn't fit into the criteria of what we would put over the top of a published RC ahead of a stable release.

I love the idea of hooks, and I think we're all excited about them, but from what I've seen, there aren't too many cases where you can just replace them with their HOC counterparts.

Definitely 4.5, though!

[michalkleiner]

It could be RC2, nah?

[ScopeyNZ]

It could be RC2, nah?

We had a brief "offline" chat about this. @unclecheese correctly pointed out that RC is stabilisation time - we shouldn't add things that make the codebase less stable 😞

[dunatron]

any chance on the react package getting a small bump?

[ScopeyNZ]

This probably should've been done with 4.5 but probably wasn't prioritised. You're welcome to contribute a bump to the 4 branch - you'll have to test it a little and try it with a module that integrates heavily like asset-admin and/or elemental.