React-spring: Why did you update everything to hooks ?

[MaximeDenuit]

I've been using your react-spring for a while, this "hooks"-hype isn't really something we like where I work. We used react-spring before, it worked great, thanks for that.

Why have you guys changed EVERYTHING to work with hooks ? Even the render-props (supposed to be the old way of working) is using hooks under the hood, this forces us to update our react version etc.. ?

Are you planning to go forward with an old version, using the "non" hooks way or not ?

Those hooks aren't really a way we'd like at work because we like our OOP approach, we're doing React with a MVVM framework, typescript etc.

The fact that everyone defines "const" everywhere isn't something we like, but whatever, that's an other discussion.

Will you guys recreate a new repo / branch for those that liked the old way or not ?

[drcmda]

no, renderprops are still there and being updated. react-spring now just has two apis. we're working on docs right now, so atm there are two documentations:

Hooks: http://react-spring.surge.sh

Render-props: http://react-spring-renderprops.surge.sh

The code for both is in this repo (look into src/renderprops). The only thing that changed is that you import { Spring, etc } from 'react-spring/renderprops'. I can't merge the two because that would be a major breaking change for the render props api and changes go too deep anyway. I hope that i can at least begin to share code at some point, when the majority has updated to 16.8.0.

So don't worry, all is well and i'll support and fix bugs for both. :)

[Tenkir]

The links to demos in the renderprops docs are dead. I also wasn't able to find a link to the renderprops docs through the main surge site.

[MaximeDenuit]

no, renderprops are still there and being updated. react-spring now just has two apis. we're working on docs right now, so atm there are two documentations:

Hooks: http://react-spring.surge.sh

Render-props: http://react-spring-renderprops.surge.sh

The code for both is in this repo (look into src/renderprops). The only thing that changed is that you import { Spring, etc } from 'react-spring/renderprops'. I can't merge the two because that would be a major breaking change for the render props api and changes go too deep anyway. I hope that i can at least begin to share code at some point, when the majority has updated to 16.8.0.

So don't worry, all is well and i'll support and fix bugs for both. :)

Thanks for the response, I indeed checked the code and I misunderstood the change, I thought everything was being ported to hooks, or 'under-the-hood' at least.

This is indeed not the case.

[drcmda]

no, i'm not sadistic, that would be some "breaking change" 😇