Use React 16 With Gatsby

Gatsby, the blazing fast static site generator for React, is tied to React 15.6. If you've been using React 16+ for a while, then this may come as a bit of a buzzkill.

Fortunately, there is a Gatsby plugin that let's you use React 16 with a Gatsby v1 site -- gatsby-plugin-react-next.

Add it the plugin as a dependency:

$ yarn add gatsby-plugin-react-next

Then add it to the list of plugins in gatsby-config.js:

plugins: [`gatsby-plugin-react-next`];

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