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Russell Gove
Iron Contributor
Oct 09, 2018

spfx support for react version 16

hi, i heard that spfx 1.6 supported react version 16. after installing the spfx 1.6 generator and creating a new spfx webpart the packages.json still points to react 15.6.2.   is this expected beh...
Joel Rodrigues's avatar
Joel Rodrigues
MVP
Oct 09, 2018
Hi Russell, if I'm not wrong React 16 will only be in SPFx 1.7, and I think that manually upgrading is not recommended.
Check recording of latest community calls as I remember that being discussed
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    Russell Gove
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 09, 2018

    Thanks Joel.

    I heard that on the call.   I'm getting so confused with version numbers ! SPX 16 has react 15. SPFX 17 has react 16.  If only those react guys would hurry up we could get the versions synched :-)

     

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