This is the first step towards descriptors. This will start cloning the
component when it's mounted instead of mounting the first instance.
This avoids an issue where a reference to the first instance can hang around
in props. Since a mounted component gets mutated, the descriptor changes.
We don't need to clone the props object itself. Mutating the shallow props
object of a child that's passed into you is already flawed. Those cases need to
use cloneWithProps. A props object is considered shallow frozen after it leaves
the render it was created in.
This is part of what Sebastian suggested. We require it into every component that explicitly needs it and inject it as a default mixin for composite components in
the browser environment. This change frees us up to inject everything in ReactComponent.
grep -rl 'Copyright 2013 Facebook' static_upstream | xargs perl -pi -w -e s/Copyright 2013 Facebook/Copyright 2013-2014 Facebook/g;'
Not going to check in a script to do this since it will just change every year.
Closes#1006
This creates a membrane around the React component prototype. It warns if you
try to access properties on the component before it's unmounted. Before it's
mounted, it should be considered a descriptor and not an actual instance.
The workaround, for unknown types, is to access the constructor using
component.type which has static methods on it.
Sebastian Markbage
Cheng Lou
Pete Hunt
Paul O’Shannessy