By Paul O’Shannessy·
Today we’re releasing React v0.11.2 to add a few small features.
We’re adding support for two more DOM elements, <dialog>
and <picture>
, as well as the associated attributes needed to use these elements: open
, media
, and sizes
. While not all browsers support these natively, some of our cutting edge users want to make use of them, so we’re making them available to everybody.
We’re also doing some work to prepare for v0.12 and improve compatibility between the versions. To do this we are replacing React.createDescriptor
with React.createElement
. createDescriptor
will continue to work with a warning and will be gone in v0.12. Chances are that this won’t affect anybody.
And lastly, on the heels of announcing Flow at @Scale yesterday, we’re adding the ability to strip TypeScript-like type annotations as part of the jsx
transform. To use, simply use the --strip-types
flag on the command line, or set stripTypes
in the options
object when calling the API. We’ll be talking about Flow more in the coming months. But for now, it’s helpful to know that it is a flow-sensitive JavaScript type checker we will be open sourcing soon.
The release is available for download from the CDN:
We’ve also published version 0.11.2
of the react
and react-tools
packages on npm and the react
package on bower.
Please try these builds out and file an issue on GitHub if you see anything awry.
<dialog>
element and associated open
attribute<picture>
element and associated media
and sizes
attributesReact.createElement
API in preparation for React v0.12React.createDescriptor
has been deprecated as a result<picture>
is now parsed into React.DOM.picture
esprima
and jstransform
for correctness fixesjsx
executable now exposes a --strip-types
flag which can be used to remove TypeScript-like type annotationsrequire('react-tools').transform
as stripTypes