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Switch to new context API

See original GitHub issue

React will soon introduce a new API for context. We should start using the latest version of react-broadcast, which is a polyfill of that API. When we first built styled-components we inlined an implementation of react-broadcast to avoid introducing an unnecessary layer of components, so that needs to be removed too.

PRs very welcome! 💯

/cc @gaearon

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:19 (13 by maintainers)

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gaearoncommented, Feb 21, 2018

We should start using the latest version of react-broadcast, which is a polyfill of that API.

FWIW I’m not confident that would work great because react-broadcast will be more heavyweight at runtime than the new context API, and in case of styled-components that overhead is shared by every component.

Maybe it would be better to cut a new major with 16.3+ compatibility.

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TrySoundcommented, Jan 29, 2018

There’s also ready to go polyfill create-react-context