Strange configuration of eslint-config-react-app

[adam-golab]

Could someone explain to me what's going on with this hardcoded version (999.999.999)? It looks like there may be some errors in the future caused by the wrong version.

create-react-app/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js

Line 317 in 4c7c3c5

settings: { react: { version: '999.999.999' } },

[mrmckeb]

Good question @adam-golab, I'm not sure. Perhaps @Timer can answer this one?

[existentialism]

Check out: #5043

[ianschmitz]

If we bump eslint-plugin-react to 7.12.0, we can use detect as the value instead.

[Timer]

tl;dr newer versions of eslint-plugin-react required you specified a React version. The old behavior was to always lint as if React was the latest version.

Due to the logic on eslint-plugin-react, the only way to tell it to always lint as if it was the latest version of React was an arbitrary high version.

[konekoya]

@Timer it would be great if you guys can leave a comment around that number :)

[ianschmitz]

@konekoya we've updated the value in #6132. Shouldn't be strange anymore 😛

[konekoya]

Ah, sorry. I didn't read thru the whole thread.