React 16.4.1 TS2339: Property 'createContext' does not exist on type 'typeof React'.

Hello there,

Kinda new to React, trying to delve a bit into Contexts, however the aforementioned method refuses to exist.

import * as React from "react";

export const UrlEditContext = React.createContext(new UrlViewItem());

This is really all the code I’ve got on this. This happens both with React 16.4.1 and 16.3.2. Other React libraries I have:

react-dom 16.0.0 react-hot-loader 3.0.0-beta.7 (came with the project created with Visual Studio) react-router-dom 4.1.1

Typescript’s version’s 2.4.1.

Anyone has any idea why would I receive the aforementioned error? Google and SO have literally (yes, literally) nothing on the topic.

Thanks, Huggy

[gaearon]

@Rufix

1. I’m sorry it was useless to you, but as I already explained we literally don’t know the answers, and you’ll get better responses about TypeScript error messages on TypeScript forums.
2. I closed this after you got a response (thanks @nmain!).
3. Closing doesn’t stop the discussion in any way. It just removes this from our action list (because this issue is not actionable for us).

[gaearon]

As to why I’m closing this—we’re using the issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests in React. This is neither. We try to respond to questions when we can, but in this case we’re not the right people to answer your question.

We maintain a list of community resources. Some of these might have other TypeScript users, so check them out: https://reactjs.org/community/support.html

Hope it helps!