React-dom versions 16.8.5 and 16.8.4 represent incremental updates to the React library, specifically focusing on DOM interactions. Both versions cater to developers building user interfaces with React, providing the necessary tools to render and manage React components within the browser environment. Developers relying on React for their front-end development will find both versions essential.
The core functionalities remain consistent: handling component rendering, managing the virtual DOM for efficient updates, and interfacing with browser APIs. Key dependencies like prop-types, loose-envify, and object-assign remain constant, ensuring backward compatibility and a familiar development experience. The peerDependencies of React also stay at version ^16.0.0, ensuring that these react-dom versions work with existing React codebases.
The primary difference lies in the scheduler dependency, which is updated from version ^0.13.4 to ^0.13.5 in version 16.8.5. While subtle, this change likely incorporates bug fixes or performance improvements within React's scheduling mechanism. This dependency manages background tasks and prioritizes updates, contributing to a smoother user experience. Further differentiating the versions, the unpacked size of version 16.8.5 has a negligible increase (4756584 vs 4751654), further indicating that only the dependency has changed slightly. Finally The 16.8.5 version was released on March 22, 2019, while version 16.8.4 was released on March 5, 2019.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 16.8.5 of the package react-dom