React.cloneElement doesn't preserve context while deprecated React.addons.cloneWithProps does

[rpominov]

Is this intentional, and what is the right way of cloning elements with context passed to them correctly?

Thanks!

[jimfb]

I'm not sure if it was intentional, but either way, we aren't going to change this behavior in a point release because it would break things for more people than it would fix. Sounds like the workaround is to use cloneWIthProps instead, which apparently does preserve context.

Starting with React 0.14, context is parent based anyway, so context will no longer be attached to the element and therefore not impacted by cloneElement / cloneWithProps.

[rpominov]

I see, so before 0.14 we can use cloneWIthProps and after 0.14 cloneElement will just work — sounds good for me. Thank you.