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zackify on April 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its R...

Not at all, nothing incompatible changes on the surface. There are more features and no breaking changes. It's mostly all under the hood!

There will be new public api's to build your own custom rendering engine, ex how there is react-dom for browsers, react-native for mobile, and it will get easier to target new platforms thanks to fiber.

amccloud on April 18, 2017 | [–]

For those who have side-effects in their component lifecycle methods might have some problems when they turn on async fibers.

oliyoung on April 18, 2017 | | [–]

Which, in Facebook's defense, they've explicitly and often warned against

zackify on April 19, 2017 | | | [–]

This will not be default until React 17 I believe.

xeromal on April 18, 2017 | [–]

Thanks.

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