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Upgrading react-native 0.50 to 0.51

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8 breaking changes.

In plain terms
  • Removes deprecated APIs from RCTUIManager.
  • Removes deprecated APIs from RCTShadowView.
  • Renames the I18nManager Left/Right swap methods.
  • Negative border radius or width values are no longer accepted.
Must act Top 3 of 8 that need code or config changes

Adds babel-plugin-transform-exponentiation-operator ^6.5.0.

Installs 719 packages in all (was 720).

What you must change

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Removes deprecated APIs from RCTUIManager.
RCTUIManager
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Removes deprecated APIs from RCTShadowView.
RCTShadowView
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Renames the I18nManager Left/Right swap methods.
I18nManager
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Considers negative border radii and widths invalid.
borderRadiusborderWidth
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Makes [RCTShadowView localData] a setter only.
RCTShadowViewlocalData
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Removes the experimental shouldBridgeInitializeNativeModulesSynchronously option.
shouldBridgeInitializeNativeModulesSynchronously
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Removes the experimental shouldBridgeLoadJavaScriptSynchronously option.
shouldBridgeLoadJavaScriptSynchronously
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Removes the experimental concept of whitelisted modules.
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