The React add-ons are a collection of useful utility modules for building React apps. These should be considered experimental and tend to change more often than the core.
TransitionGroup
and CSSTransitionGroup
, for dealing with animations and transitions that are usually not simple to implement, such as before a component's removal.createFragment
, to create a set of externally-keyed children.The add-ons below are in the development (unminified) version of React only:
Perf
, a performance profiling tool for finding optimization opportunities.ReactTestUtils
, simple helpers for writing test cases.The add-ons below are considered legacy and their use is discouraged.
PureRenderMixin
. Use React.PureComponent
instead.shallowCompare
, a helper function that performs a shallow comparison for props and state in a component to decide if a component should update.update
. Use kolodny/immutability-helper
instead.LinkedStateMixin
has been deprecated.
If using npm, you can install the add-ons individually from npm (e.g. npm install react-addons-test-utils
) and import them:
import Perf from 'react-addons-perf'; // ES6
var Perf = require('react-addons-perf'); // ES5 with npm
When using a CDN, you can use react-with-addons.js
instead of react.js
:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react@15/dist/react-with-addons.js"></script>
The add-ons will be available via the React.addons
global (e.g. React.addons.TestUtils
).