A Proposal: add some defaults for prop-types to ignore

[AlexKVal]

As in React.Children said:

React.Children provides utilities for dealing with the this.props.children opaque data structure.

props.children has an opaque type.

So maybe it would be wise to add it into some kind of defaults list to ignore.

For now it needs to be added

"react/prop-types": [1, { ignore: [children] }]

into .eslintrc.

Same is true for className (and maybe for some more, that I'm not aware of yet).

I am new to React development and I believe I just don't know something related to written above,
so I'm looking for help with this idea.

If it turns up the idea is right one, I could try to implement it (with tests and docs of course).

[yannickcr]

In first implementation children was always ignored since defining some propTypes for it is not a very common practice. But as @AsaAyers pointed out, there is no particular reason to document all props but not children. Same for className.

I think you can discuss it in #7.

[AsaAyers]

IMO if children is difficult to figure out which type to use, you can always use React.PropTypes.any.

[AlexKVal]

I knew I wasn't first who noticed. 😄
So I think it would be logical to add notice about this situation into docs for future developers.
My possible solution for this is #55.
English is not my native, so I'm apologise for any errors.

[yannickcr]

Thanks! Documentation improvement is always welcome :)