Each of these changes will continue to work as before with a new warning until the release of 0.15 so you can upgrade your code gradually.
Due to the DOM node refs change mentioned above, this.getDOMNode() is now deprecated and ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this) can be used instead. Note that in most cases, calling findDOMNode is now unnecessary – see the example above in the “DOM node refs” section.
from react v0.1.4 Upgrade guide: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/07/react-v0.14.html
Each of these changes will continue to work as before with a new warning until the release of 0.15 so you can upgrade your code gradually.
Due to the DOM node refs change mentioned above, this.getDOMNode() is now deprecated and ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this) can be used instead. Note that in most cases, calling findDOMNode is now unnecessary – see the example above in the “DOM node refs” section.