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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

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

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 :-)