Migrate to import * as React from 'react'

[kodai3]

- import React from 'react'
+ import * as React from 'react'

reference
facebook/react#18102
mui/material-ui#19802

[caleb-harrelson]

At what version of React does this become required? I don't see anything about this listed as a breaking change for v17 and this comment seems to indicate it won't affect ES Module imports like we have here, just CommonJS requires.

[kodai3]

I could not find at what version facebook/react#18106 released, but named export is released some where at v16.x.
v16.13.1 already has no default export, so default exporting is already not technically correct.
https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/v16.13.1/packages/react/src/React.js

My understanding is bundlers make default export work on ESM(separate entry points), so the change did not affect ESM, but "will" do with transition period.

facebook/react#18102 (comment)

[atnpcg]

I haven't seen anywhere on react that default export is not longer available.
all of their docs they still use
import React from 'react'

[caleb-harrelson]

Closing this as unnecessary until we see more documentation about it being required.