Cannot use React 19 new `use` hook

Question

I am trying to try out new features of React 19.

In order to do that, I have created React app with Vite and TypeScript:

npm create vite@latest

Then upgraded to React 19 libraries (accoridngly to this article):

npm install --save-exact react@rc react-dom@rc

After this I can see upgraded React version in package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "react": "19.0.0-rc-d8c90fa4-20241001",
    "react-dom": "19.0.0-rc-d8c90fa4-20241001"
}

Now I want to try out new React 19 features, one of which is new hook use, but when I try:

import { use } from 'react'

I get an error that it's not exported from react:

Module "react" has no exported member 'use'

Obviously, I did now complete correctly "migration" to React 19 - what did I miss? How to make it work?

I also have suspicion that this feature might be specific to React Server Components..

Answer 1

The @types/react you're using don't yet have that name, so TypeScript is confused.

You could try a local module augmentation file (e.g. src/react-19.d.ts):

/// <reference types="react" />

declare namespace React {
  export function use(): void;  // fill in with the correct signature
}