UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps not called when using React 16.3.2

Question

I followed the advice in https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/27/update-on-async-rendering.html#gradual-migration-path and after upgrading to React 16.3.2 I wanted to rename all our soon to be deprecated lifecycle methods to their UNSAFE_ equivalents.

However I noticed that UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps is not called at all. When I change it back to componentWillReceiveProps it works. Any ideas why?

class Chart extends React.Component<ChartProps> {
  chartContainer: SVGSVGElement;
  tooltip: HTMLDivElement;
  xScale: ScaleBand<string>;
  yScale: ScaleLinear<number, number>;

  UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps: Props) {
    ...
  }
...
}

Answer 1

I found the issue. react-dom package needs to be upgraded to 16.3.2 version as well.