Wasp-lang•2y ago

React version

Is the version of react locked in? I can see it's 17+ whereas the latest as we all know is 18+. I tried to set it to 18 with dependency rule in .wasp file like so

    dependencies: [
        ("react", "18.2.0")
    ]

    dependencies: [
        ("react", "18.2.0")
    ]

and got an error:

❌ --- [Error] Your wasp project failed to compile: -------------------------------

- Error: Dependency conflict for user dependency (react, 18.2.0): Version must be set to the exactly the same version as the one wasp is using: ^17.0.2


❌ --- [Error] Recompilation on file change failed.: ------------------------------

1 errors found

❌ --- [Error] Your wasp project failed to compile: -------------------------------

- Error: Dependency conflict for user dependency (react, 18.2.0): Version must be set to the exactly the same version as the one wasp is using: ^17.0.2


❌ --- [Error] Recompilation on file change failed.: ------------------------------

1 errors found

10 Replies

matijash•2y ago

yes, some of the core packages (like React) are locked to what is Wasp using internally. I think we could actually upgrade, any reason @martinsos why we haven't yet?

IamIconLivingOP•2y ago

is it possible to let developer control this? and ofc for those who don't care, wasp does things by default like it does now

matijash•2y ago

yep, we actually could do that potentially! We could even support having multiple versions of the same lib, so you don't depend on what wasp uses

IamIconLivingOP•2y ago

:boi:

MEE6•2y ago

Wohooo @IamIconLiving 🎄, you just became a Waspeteer level 1!

matijash•2y ago

@IamIconLiving 🎄 is there any particular feature from React 18 you'd like to use?

IamIconLivingOP•2y ago

for a todo app that I am putting together to discover wasp nope, but doing a production grade app I'd like to use latest stable versions of react

matijash•2y ago

for sure! let us know how it went, would love to get your feedback 🙂

miho•2y ago

Wasp provides you with bits and pieces of React code and we need to know which React version we are targeting. And since the way the app is mounted changed from 17 to 18, we can't support both out of the box without making some changes internally. :/ That being said, we have a plan to upgrade to React 18 soon (next Wasp release probably) since it's not a big migration for us, but we do need to test everything well, to make sure that the whole DX is still good 🙂

IamIconLivingOP•2y ago

absolutely @miho ! thanks for your responsiveness guys!

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