2.7 release

[justin808]

If you have feedback on what's needed for a 2.7 release, please comment!

• Issues for 2.7
• PRs for 2.7

TODO for 2.7

• Update changelog for diffs since 2.6.2
• Verify the latest Shakapacker works with React-Rails
• Confirm support for latest React 18 via Shakapacker
• Consider updating the versions of React packaged with react-rails
• Update to React 17 latest, as this was done for React 16
• Update Sample App to master with latest Shakapacker

[ahangarha]

With the guideline I wrote in README file (#1214) I can verify react-rails works fine with Shakapacker. (For Rails 6 and 7)

[ahangarha]

I also think we should add test for React-Rails + Shakapacker. I don't know if we should keep the test for React-Rails + Webpacker or not.

[justin808]

Webpacker v5.4 and before should work.

If the migration to shakapacker should be straightforward, then we should require that for react-rails v3.

[justin808]

@ahangarha what's left for 2.7 release? can you check off items as completed?

[ahangarha]

This is the status:

• ✅ Update changelog for diffs since 2.6.2
• ✅ Verify the latest Shakapacker works with React-Rails
• ⏭️ Confirm support for latest React 18 via Shakapacker
• ⏭️ Consider updating the versions of React packaged with react-rails
• ⏭️ Update to React 17 latest, as this was done for React 16
• ⚠️ Update Sample App to master with latest Shakapacker

Tomorrow I can work on checking react 18 with shakapacker and hopefully upgrade to React 17.0.2. Working on the sample app would take more time. Regarding the old versions of dependencies, I cannot give any estimation on how long it would talk time. For that I might need some support.

Also from other issues, I think we should include the following(s) in the list:

• Update dependencies (webpack)

[ahangarha]

For "Update to react 17", I have done all of the steps except updating the version in lib/react/rails/version.rb which requires other updates and ultimately it requires (as per the comments in the file) running rake ujs:publish. Since this process generates many more files and tries updating npm package on npmjs.com, I didn't proceed further.

I need guidance for this step.

[justin808]

Shipped.