React 16 support

[insolite]

As mentioned in React 15.5 release notes, React.createClass (MDEditor.js#L13) and React.PropTypes (MDEditor.js#L16-L19) are now deprecated.
Are there any plans for making further releases with such replacements to make editor support React 16?

[daanishnasir]

Yeah total bummer; doesn't seem to work anymore.

[JodieHag]

No, no work in React 16! :(

[ttbarnes]

+1

[hungrypipo]

Wait, why is this hard to fix? Isn't is just refactor out React.createClass and React.PropTypes

[insolite]

As far as I remember there are something else to fix. I've tried to rewrite only createClass/PropTypes and faced with a bunch of another issues which I had no time to deal with. So I just posted generic issue with some proofs here.

[Venryx]

Seeing as this one's not being maintained, the following might be a better option: https://github.com/andrerpena/react-mde

EDIT: Nevermind, I looked at the other one and get the idea that the developer is overengineering; it doesn't seem to have much additional functionality, yet uses like 10 times as many files to do it. (and ~3 times as many lines) Probably better just to patch up this one.

[brandonrobertz]

@Venryx the other one you mentioned (https://github.com/andrerpena/react-mde) uses Draft.js as the editor front end, so it has a lot more functionality than this project (revisions/history, pasting of files, images, links, removal by block, etc). So it's not just wasted extra files -- Draft.js is somewhat opinionated, but does a lot of heavy lifting. (Just dropping this as a note for anyone else encountering this project's issue and thinking of jumping ship.)

[johnsonsamuel]

Any update on this ? :(

[brandonrobertz]

@johnsonsamuel I ended up working around this by using https://github.com/sstur/react-rte as an editor and https://github.com/rexxars/react-markdown as the renderer. They're both React first and have XSS safety unlike this module and https://github.com/andrerpena/react-mde