Deprecate Touchables

[necolas]

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Describe the feature request

The Touchables are no longer recommended in React Native and have been replaced by Pressable. We should deprecate the Touchable components and mixin, and then remove them from React Native for Web. There has been the intent to deprecate them from React Native for a while, but the team hasn't had time to get around to it yet.

[agusvazquez]

Hello @necolas are there any docs where I can learn about this?

I looked for TouchableOpacity, the official docs doesn't say that is getting deprecated or no longer recommended to use.
https://reactnative.dev/docs/touchableopacity

Thanks!

[nabilfreeman]

@agusvazquez He seems to regularly deprecate things in RN Web ahead of core RN. I've encountered this twice now, pretty annoying.

Edit: But, you know, thanks for everything you do Nicolas, it's your library and you are appreciated 🙏

[gentlee]

@necolas I think It is a mistake. Pressable doesn't have press feedback by default, while TouchableOpacity does, and it works most of the time like a charm.

Pressable requires additional programming of the feedback, so if we remove TouchableOpacity, everyone will actually implement it out of Pressable, which sounds like an excess work for no good reason.

Also, by being not so flexible, TouchableOpacity seems to be a bit faster alternative.

TouchableWithoutFeedback probably can be deprecated as it looks like a duplicate or Pressable, but other components, especially TouchableOpacity, IMO should not.

[necolas]

RN itself has long intended to deprecate those components but just hasn't gotten around to doing so. If you're targeting web, you'll have to move off old APIs faster, because the cost of RN bloat on web is far too high both for me to maintain and for apps on web to be vaguely acceptable from a perf perspective.