React: [npm:create-react-class] No way to implement getDerivedStateFromProps

[pjebs]

There seems to be no way to implement class methods such as getDerivedStateFromProps and a few others.

Am I overlooking something?

There is no mention of it here either: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-es6.html

[gaearon]

This should work, no?

var Button = createReactClass({
  statics: {
    getDerivedStateFromProps() {
      // ...
  },
  render() {
    // ...
  }
});

Note getDerivedStateFromProps is generally meant to be last resort and not recommended except a few edge cases.

What other methods did you have a problem with?

[pjebs]

All the methods I was concerned about can be solved by your suggestion of using statics. I didn't see that in the documentation anywhere.

[gaearon]

Yeah, doc needs updating. Filed https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/1214 for this — feel free to help.

You shouldn't need to put other methods in statics though. There are no other static methods in React component API.

[pjebs]

There are some such as the name of component for Debugging purposes etc. I believe there is another too.

[pjebs]

See:

https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#class-properties

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/15-stable/addons/create-react-class/factory.js#L294