Warning: componentWillReceiveProps has been renamed, and is not recommended for use.

With react 16.9+, componentWillReceiveProps has been deprecated. Due to the large range of supported react versions with react-placeholder, a fix for this will require a major version change. The current uses could be moved to UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps, but I’m not sure if that is available as far back as react 0.14. Is it time for a version that requires react 16.8+ and is built with hooks? 😄

[BrianMitchL]

This issue has been pretty quiet, so I’d be happy to take it on! A couple of things come across my mind first:

1. I would like to propose dropping support for react <16.8.0 so it can be built using hooks.
2. With the high usage of TypeScript in recent years, and added complexity with mixing prop-types and Typescript, I think that prop-types could be removed.
3. I think the build tooling could switch to rollup, even using something like tsdx would make this really easy.

To do this upgrade, I would first enhance the test suite for the current version. Then migrate to hooks and function components, and ensure that the tests still pass, or do with minimal changes.

Any thoughts?

[gromchen]

It would be nice to have it soon.