React-native-web: NOTICE: API removals

[necolas]

The next major release still remove all the APIs that have been deprecated or removed from React Native. There will be no deprecation period in RNW. Several of those APIs were never implemented and most of the rest of them involve unnecessary overhead. A notable exception is CheckBox which I think belongs in the core and I will continue to maintain

[piranna]

Would this help to update react-native-web to be compatible with React Native latest v0.59 (maybe 0.60 when the deprecations take effect)? I'm willing to update re-start and my work project to latest available versions...

[necolas]

Additional RN exports I'm hoping to get moved out of core (https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/23313)

• Button (kind of useless)
• DrawerLayoutAndroid (android-only atm)
• FlatList (doesn't work well on web, no dependencies on RN internals)
• VirtualizedList (as above)
• TabBarIOS
• TimePickerAndroid
• ToastAndroid

[piranna]

• Button (kind of useless)
• FlatList (doesn't work well on web, no dependencies on RN internals)
• VirtualizedList (as above)

Well, call me a freerunner, but so far in the project I've been involved, we use extensively both Button and FlatList to be considered useless, also on web...

[necolas]

You can trivially build your own, better button - https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/blob/b732cec/packages/react-native-web/src/exports/Button/index.js

And if FlatList were an external package you could still use it on web if you want.

[cltsang]

For VirtualizedList and FlatList, what are the altematives? The react-native core ones encapsulate a lot of optimizations.

[EyMaddis]

@cltsang Here is an alternative with web support:
https://github.com/Flipkart/recyclerlistview

[necolas]

All the removed APIs are visible in the commits referenced above