react18-upgrade — GitHub Copilot plugin: migration and install

# React 18 Upgrade Plugin

Enterprise toolkit for migrating React 16/17 class-component codebases to React 18.3.1. Includes six specialized agents and seven skills targeting the specific challenges of upgrading legacy class-heavy applications.

## Installation

```bash
copilot plugin install react18-upgrade@awesome-copilot
```

## What's Included

### Agents

1. **react18-commander** - Master orchestrator that coordinates the entire migration pipeline through audit, dependencies, class-component surgery, automatic batching fixes, and test verification phases.

2. **react18-auditor** - Deep-scan specialist that identifies every React 18 breaking change: unsafe lifecycle methods, legacy context, string refs, batching vulnerabilities, and all deprecation patterns.

3. **react18-dep-surgeon** - Dependency upgrade specialist that pins [email protected] exactly, upgrades testing-library to v14+, resolves all peer conflicts, and returns GO/NO-GO confirmation.

4. **react18-class-surgeon** - Lifecycle and API migration specialist that performs semantic migrations for:
   - `componentWillMount` → `componentDidMount` or constructor
   - `componentWillReceiveProps` → `getDerivedStateFromProps` or `componentDidUpdate`
   - `componentWillUpdate` → `getSnapshotBeforeUpdate` or `componentDidUpdate`
   - Legacy Context → `createContext`
   - String refs → `React.createRef()`
   - `findDOMNode` → direct refs
   - `ReactDOM.render` → `createRoot`

5. **react18-batching-fixer** - Automatic batching regression specialist that identifies and fixes the #1 silent runtime breaker in React 18: setState calls in async methods that relied on immediate intermediate re-renders.

6. **react18-test-guardian** - Test suite fixer that handles Enzyme-to-RTL rewrites, RTL v14 API updates, automatic batching test regressions, StrictMode double-invoke changes, and runs tests until zero failures.

### Skills

1. **react-audit-grep-patterns** - Reference grep patterns for auditing React 18 deprecations across class components.

2. **react18-batching-patterns** - Patterns and strategies for identifying and fixing automatic batching regressions.

3. **react18-dep-compatibility** - Dependency compatibility matrix for React 18 with migration paths for testing-library, Apollo, Emotion, react-router.

4. **react18-enzyme-to-rtl** - Complete guide for rewriting Enzyme tests to React Testing Library (RTL v14+).

5. **react18-legacy-context** - Migration patterns for legacy context API → `createContext`.

6. **react18-lifecycle-patterns** - Detailed migration patterns for all three unsafe lifecycle methods.

7. **react18-string-refs** - Reference implementations for migrating string refs to `React.createRef()`.

## Quick Start

```
Ask: "Start implementing React 18 migration for my class-component codebase"
```

The react18-commander will guide you through:

1. Audit → identify all breaking changes
2. Deps → upgrade to [email protected] + compatible libraries
3. Class Surgery → migrate lifecycle methods and APIs
4. Batching Fixes → fix automatic batching regressions
5. Tests → migrate test suite and run to green

## Why React 18.3.1?

React 18.3.1 was released to surface **explicit warnings** for every API that React 19 will remove. A clean 18.3.1 run with zero warnings is the direct prerequisite for the React 19 migration.

## Key Features

- ✅ Targets class-component-heavy codebases (NOT just functional component patterns)
- ✅ Automatic batching issue detection and `flushSync` recommendations
- ✅ Enzyme test detection with full RTL rewrite capability
- ✅ Memory-based resumable pipeline - survive interruptions
- ✅ Zero tolerance for incomplete migrations - run to full success
- ✅ StrictMode-aware test fixes
- ✅ Apollo Client, Emotion, react-router compatibility handling

## Source

This plugin is part of [Awesome Copilot](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot).

## License

MIT