Requiring React 16

I’m working on a PR on react-jsonschema-form for passing an Ajv instance from outside (allowing custom keywords etc.), and I need to use the Context API which has been introduced in React 16.3.

Even better would be availability of contextType for React class components, introduced in React 16.6.

Would you accept a PR which bumps up React version to 16.3, 16.6 or even current 16.8.6? and peerDependency to >= 16.3 or >= 16.6, respectively?

[epicfaace]

I’ve updated the peer dependency to 16, but would it be better to make it 16.3 or 16.6 as you suggested? I’m not sure if doing so would cause issues with upgrading (because not everyone may be on newer versions of React 16)

[sbusch]

Closed (for now) #1286 I use the ponyfill mentioned above. Due to the lack of contextType support, the code is slightly more verbose than necessary, but I managed to restrict the changes in this regard, see render/renderWithContext wrapper for class-based components:

• original render renamed to renderWithContext
• new render is just a wrapper that gets the context and calls renderWithContext with it