Reactjs.org: Republish React 15 docs

[slashwhatever]

Some of us still have to use React 15 while the impacts of React 16 are assessed against our Enterprise scale apps.

Please republish the last version of the React 15 docs.

[gaearon]

You can build them from here and then publish them, or you can view them inline in the git branch I linked.

We've already started publishing snapshots of docs per version but we don't have one for React 15. I guess we could publish it though.

[alexkrolick]

Probably should... but maybe updating the v15 docs to have a way to get back to 16/latest would be a good idea

[gaearon]

One thing I'm worried about is that it'll start getting Google juice like a Chinese fork of React 15 docs did. And then people will find it instead of the main docs by accident.

[alexkrolick]

True... looks like React Native does this: https://github.com/facebook/react-native-website/tree/master/website/versioned_docs

Then maybe robots.txt could be told not to index certain versioned routes?

See also https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/85

[jaredp]

Not generally useful, but if you're on v15.4.2 I've got https://jpochtar.me/react/

[alexkrolick]

Published the 15.6 docs:

• https://react-legacy.netlify.com/
• https://github.com/alexkrolick/react-gh-pages

Also added a robots.txt to discourage crawlers

It was a bit of a pain getting the Ruby deps together to build the site, and I also had to remap the base urls from /react to / - if anyone wants to add even earlier version let me know if you have trouble.

[bvaughn]

Thanks Alex!

[leongaban]

Hi @gaearon I tried to rebuild it but running into this error Error: Cannot find module 'rollup'

Tho, for others I did find this helpful link: https://jpochtar.me/react/
Some random guy on the internet is hosting it.

[bvaughn]

@leongaban Alex's comment above points to react-legacy.netlify.com which is also now linked to [on the React version page](https://reactjs.org/versions so I would recommend just using it.

[leongaban]

Thanks @bvaughn, I did find that link to 15.6.2 however an app I'm going to have to work on is in 15.0.2, so the 15.4.2 version was the oldest I could find. Hopefully an upgrade to 16 will happen this year.

[slashwhatever]

@leongaban Alex's comment above points to react-legacy.netlify.com which is also now linked to [on the React version page](https://reactjs.org/versions so I would recommend just using it.

Seems that clicking a result in the search on the netlify page just routes you back to the latest v16 docs though

[alexkrolick]

Seems that clicking a result in the search on the netlify page just routes you back to the latest v16 docs though

Correct; I believe this is an issue with all of the old versions, including the 16 & 17 release families