I believe #5744 introduced a behavioral difference between development and production versions of React. We released it as a part of 15.0, and this difference still exists.

The production behavior hasn’t changed. However the development behavior diverged after this change.

``` js
var el = React.createElement('div', { key: undefined })
document.body.innerHTML = (typeof el.key) + ' ' + el.key
```

What do you expect to appear?
### 0.14.x
- Development (https://jsfiddle.net/sjLcmnq6/1/): `object null`
- Production (https://jsfiddle.net/qro1wck0/1/): `object null`
## 15.x
- Development (https://jsfiddle.net/69z2wepo/43538/):  **`string undefined`**
- Production (https://jsfiddle.net/rakg6uwy/1/): `object null`

The 15.x dev behavior is different because [dev code path only checks the existence of a property but not whether it’s undefined](https://github.com/alitaheri/react/blob/c3980a6d08257d39a08bed8b116d53a56344166b/src/isomorphic/classic/element/ReactElement.js#L130-L133) whereas the [prod code path checks for undefined explicitly](https://github.com/alitaheri/react/blob/c3980a6d08257d39a08bed8b116d53a56344166b/src/isomorphic/classic/element/ReactElement.js#L135-L136).

`React.cloneElement()` is not affected because it doesn’t include those warnings.

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This doesn’t seem like a major problem (nobody noticed it!) in the real world, but I think we should fix this.
I have a related fix in the works so I’ll add some more tests and include it.

* @param {*} self A *temporary* helper to detect places where `this` is
 * different from the `owner` when React.createElement is called, so that we
 * can warn. We want to get rid of owner and replace string `ref`s with arrow
 * functions, and as long as `this` and owner are the same, there will be no
 * change in behavior.
 * @param {*} source An annotation object (added by a transpiler or otherwise)
 * indicating filename, line number, and/or other information.
 * @param {*} owner
 * @param {*} props
 * @internal
 */
var ReactElement = function(type, key, ref, self, source, owner, props) {
  var element = {
    
    $$typeof: REACT_ELEMENT_TYPE,
    
    type: type,
    key: key,
    ref: ref,
    props: props,
    
    _owner: owner,
  };
  if (__DEV__) {
    
    
    
    
    element._store = {};