React and Redux error: “_react.default.createContext is not a function”

I’m adding Redux to an existing React app, converting from Flux to Redux. After wrapping my root component with the <Provider> I got this error and the app doesn’t initialize:

_react.default.createContext is not a function

Doing a quick search found this post suggesting I’ve got a mismatch in versions between newest Redux versions and possibly older versions of React. This is possible as I’m updating an older React app I put together a couple of years ago. Quick way to test this, remove React and react-dom and add them back again.

Right now I have:

"react": "^15.4.1",
"react-dedux": "^0.4.0-beta.4",
"react-dom": "^15.4.1",
"react-redux": "^7.2.0"

Removed React and react-dom and added back latest versions:

"react": "^16.13.1",
"react-dedux": "^0.4.0-beta.4",
"react-dom": "^16.13.1",
"react-redux": "^7.2.0"

Restated my app, fixed!

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