Improve contextType docs
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Description
See confusion in https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13969.
Specific action items:
- Clarify
.contextTypeis available only since 16.6 (and corresponding RN/Expo release) - Clarify you may not be seeing it due to circular deps, and best practice is to declare it in a separate file
- People sometimes get confused thinking that
createContextvalue is the one you need to "update", we need to explain it's driven by state - Need more coherent doc structure
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing contextType documentation and the confusion described in issue 13969. Clarify the React 16.6 availability, circular-dependency guidance, and state-driven createContext usage, then reorganize the material into a more coherent structure; the documentation should address each listed confusion.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100