Update Libs

[stevensacks]

A great many of the libs in this project are behind. I was able to update almost all of them except just a few. Working through the issues, here's what I discovered.

WebPack 4 is the biggest change since it no longer requires as much configuration. However, I don't know enough about your particular setup to know what can/should be removed from your configs so I left them alone except for two things that were required to make it run.

In the config files for dev and prod, you have to move InterpolateHtmlPlugin after HtmlWebpackPlugin ( as per jantimon/html-webpack-plugin#875 ).

You also have to add mode: 'development' to dev and mode: 'production'` to prod ( as per https://webpack.js.org/concepts/mode/ )

This version of react-dev-utils is required until the Webpack 4 upgrade PR gets merged in:
facebook/create-react-app#4466 (comment)

React can't be updated to 16.5.x until this PR is merged and released:
necolas/react-native-web#1096

React Native 0.56.0 works, but 0.57.0 won't without React 16.5 and these changes: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-releases/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#updating-to-this-version

[orYoffe]

Hi @stevensacks, thanks a lot for the detailed issue.
I would be happy to but I would wait for create-react-app to upgrade to babel 7 and webpack 4 (they're working on v2) and then i will recreate it from that project.
PRs are welcome :)

[stevensacks]

Hello again! CRA 2 is out! Can we get this working this week?

[stevensacks]

I tried updating the libs but when I run the build I get an error

No bundle URL found

[orYoffe]

Hi @stevensacks,
thanks for the update. Unfortunately I can not promise I will finish it this week. I am sorry but I have other work to do at the moment. Not entirely sure when i will be able to do the next release but I will do my best to do it asap.
Many thanks for the interest.

Babel and Webpack aren't the most problematic to update since I didn't see react-native-web working yet with the most updated react-native and reactjs versions so it might take some time..

If you are trying to create a new project and fear that it won't be compatible with the next release don't worry since you could just copy your components and continue once I finished the next release since i don't see many breaking changes.

[stevensacks]

It’s more that I want to use the recent version of React (16.5.x) than React Native 0.57.

[orYoffe]

@stevensacks from what i read, it's possible with react 16.5.1 necolas/react-native-web#1096 (comment)
and react-native-web 9 necolas/react-native-web#1096 (comment)

[geminiyellow]

👏 hey @orYoffe , good work day day up.

[stevensacks]

With Suspense and Hooks coming soon, it seems like now more than ever it's a good time to work through the issues in upgrading this library to the latest (stable) version of React so it's easy to update to the version with Hooks when it's released.

[orYoffe]

@stevensacks I agree and love the new features too, unfortunately the issue is of time currently and not of will, maybe will be able to work on it this month.
but that doesn't promise that the newest version of react will be available since react-native doesn't always update automatically to the newest and the same for react-native-web.

thanks for your patience and I would suggest to try composing the project yourself since you seem motivated. It's a good learning experience and I would love to merge a working PR since I don't have that much time to work on it.

Also the new api from jest of snapshot directory resolver should solve the switchSnapshots.js script I run before each test

[stevensacks]

I’ve tried to update the project with new libs but I keep running into issues where errors happen on build after I do. My guess is I’m not understanding some particulars of your webpack build configuration. The new version of Webpack doesn’t require as much configuration so that could be contributing, as well.

For the time being, I’m going to make a new React Native project and worry about the web version later since they have fixed the issues with the latest version of Xcode and hopefully you can find some time to update this lib in the meantime.

Thanks!

[geminiyellow]

yep, babel's update is good, but when i upgrade webpack configs, there is not too much diff, but run into error. dont know why.

[rpweb]

@orYoffe thanks for the good work! looking forward for the new version.
are you located in berlin? if yes, we could meet up. would like to contribute