Webpack, React, and Multiple Versions Issues

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:10:21 +0000

I’ve been using React successfully for several projects, and tonight I ran into a problem I hadn’t experienced before. I was trying both react-d3and react-d3-components when I would get an error on rendering:

Uncaught TypeError: Can't add property context, object is not extensible

This error had a very, very deep stack trace far into the depths of React, and I was worried I had encountered a nasty React bug. After some poking around & googling, I discovered that multiple versions of React do not play nicely with each other, at all. When I had installed both those react component libraries, each installed their own version of React, version 0.12. I was using React version 0.13.

Thoughts on Learning React & Flux

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:15:25 +0000

I started to write a blog post detailing everything I’ve learned over the last few months building applications with React & Flux. After writing down about 10% of it, I realized it was becoming far too long. So, instead, I’ll be doing a series of posts over the next few weeks.

Over the last two months, interest in React has had a surge of interest. If you look at the search term reactjs over the last 12 months:

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Webpack, React, and Multiple Versions Issues

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