My experience with React 16

If you haven’t already heard, the big news over the past fortnight is that React 16 was released.

Now I don’t want to waste your time with another “What is React 16?”; the official blog is already very informative. But what I can give you is the story of my experience this week, when I upgraded a large project to React 16.

The short version

If you have a React 15.5 app which doesn’t use deprecated features and doesn’t throw errors, then React 16 just works!

Of course, “it just works” doesn’t make for a very interesting story. So lucky for you, it didn’t just work for me.

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