Move to functional components with React Hooks

[Tosters]

Hi,
This is not really an issues, but is there any info on if there are plans to add react 17.0.0 dependency to webchat? As some of the lifecycle methods will be removed from react 17?
Thanks.

[corinagum]

Thanks for bringing this up! Update on Async Rendering

We actually have a note for this already in our code: BasicWebChat.js but we can use this issue to track the topic as the team discusses it.

I did some research but haven't yet found a projected release date for React 17. However, componentWillMount, componentWillReceiveProps, and componentWillUpdate have already been introduced as 'unsafe' as of React 16.3.

[Tosters]

Hey, thanks for the reply.
I didn't quite understand if webchat itself will have dependency on react v17 (whenever it might be).
As it sounds more logical that you would follow react updates and won't stay on the 16.x.x version forever.

[corinagum]

We can do this at the same time we bump to React 17. :)

[corinagum]

Component name	Class	Legacy lifecycle	No lifecycle	Hooked
AdaptiveCardAttachments	✔️		✔️	✔️
AnimationCardAttachments	✔️		✔️	✔️
CommonCard	✔️		✔️	✔️
HeroCardAttachment	✔️		✔️	✔️
OAuthCardAttachment	✔️		✔️	✔️
ReceiptCardAttachment	✔️		✔️	✔️
ThumbnailCardAttachment	✔️		✔️	✔️
FullReactWebChat	✔️
BasicWebChat	✔️	✔️
Composer	✔️	✔️
Dictation	✔️		✔️	✔️
ConnectivityStatus	✔️
UploadButton	✔️		✔️	✔️
CroppedImage	✔️		✔️	✔️
RelativeTime	✔️	✔️
Timer	✔️	✔️
Box	✔️		✔️
App.js (Playground)	✔️
JSONDebugView	✔️		✔️	✔️