Why does V2 require React 18?

[evan-buss]

Hello,

I am currently unable to upgrade my project to React 18 and will be stuck on React 17 for the immediate future. After trying to install V2, I learned that MRT now requires React 18.

Can you give any insight as to why this is the case? As far as I can tell, neither MUI or @tanstack/react-table depend upon React 18.

Thanks for the great library, it's incredibly useful.

Side note: the search functionality for the V1 docs seems to have been recently shut off 😞

[KevinVandy]

I was originally experimenting with some react 18 and concurrent mode features to speed up render performance during filtering. I actually haven't put any react 18 dependent features in MRT v2 yet, but plan to. Also since it's almost 2024 and 2 years since React 18 was released, I thought it was pretty expected to recommend React 18.

You can upgrade React 18 but keep your app rendering in React 17 mode btw.

[evan-buss]

Unfortunately the project is stuck on 17 due to using the Microsoft SharePoint SPFX framework which has its own non-standard build toolchain. They are incredibly slow to update versions.

[KevinVandy]

And yeah I removed search from the v1 docs because Docs search is only set up for my main domain name. The v1 docs are legacy, and just there for a while until people migrate.