Upgrade react to v16.

[mitjade]

I know this might be a bit early, since a lot of packages will take a while to all move to v16 and react-native-web is still not yet compatible, but should be soon (necolas/react-native-web#364).

New version of RN uses now react v16.beta5 and we theoretically could make this kit already work with the latest RN and expo packages.

I would rather remove react-native-web for now and have new RN (flatList, ...), but am not sure this is the only think that would break.

@Vlasenko what are your thoughts. Should we wait a few moths or give this a try sooner?

[larixer]

@mitjade Lerna branch of this kit is perfectly working with React v16 for a month already. So I don't see any other problems, except that some of our dependencies are not ready yet. But if we can move away from these dependencies I'm all for it. I would like we give this a try as soon as possible

[larixer]

@mitjade Build infra should be perfectly compatible with React v16. When I have tested it works even better with React v16, then with v15

[mairh]

so what's the plan? Improve lerna branch to use v16 or implement v16 in the current master and get rid of react-native-web?

[larixer]

@mairh get rid of react-native-web and implement v16 in current master

[mitjade]

I am for this as well.

[mitjade]

Since react is already rolling out release candidates, we can probably wait until they release a stable version and for RN to use it as well. Hopefully this might be happening within a month, since RN has monthly release cycles.

[larixer]

@mitjade Yep, I agree

[mitjade]

@Vlasenko I see you created a branch for react16. Do you intend to upgrade this kit to react 16?

[larixer]

@mitjade Yes, I'm working on this. Not all the deps are ready, but I'm going to find workarounds for all.