Using the full potential of React in SharePoint Framework 1.8.0
A new version of SharePoint Framework was just released and one of the great things is that some of the dependencies were bumped. In version SPFx version 1.8.0, TypeScript was updated to 2.7.2 and React to 16.7.0. The React version is not even so old; it was released in December 2018 and comes with some handy features like lazy loading