Using React PropTypes and defaultProps pattern with Redux-ORM models

models.js

import { PropTypes } from 'react';
import { Model } from 'redux-orm';
import getEnv from 'get-env';

const env = getEnv();

class ValidatingModel extends Model {
    static _validateProps(props) {
        if (typeof this.propTypes === 'object') {
            forOwn(this.propTypes, (validator, key) => {
                const result = validator(props, key, this.modelName);
                if (result instanceof Error) {
                    throw result;
                }
            });
        }
    }

    static create(props) {
        const defaults = this.hasOwnProperty('defaultProps')
            ? this.defaultProps
            : {};
        const propsWithDefaults = Object.assign({}, defaults, props);

        if (env !== 'prod') {
            this._validateProps(propsWithDefaults);
        }

        return super.create(propsWithDefaults);
    }
};

// Use like this:

export class Person extends ValidatingModel { }
Person.modelName = 'Person';
Person.propTypes = {
    name: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
    age: PropTypes.number.isRequired,
    isFetching: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
};
Person.defaultProps = {
    isFetching: false,
};

If I understand well, from react version 15+, we should use "prop-types" library instead of react, and thus manual validation is not required anymore :
https://www.npmjs.com/package/prop-types

But actually it doesn't work directly, so we have to use "PropTypes.checkPropTypes" from "prop-types".
I managed to make it work like this :

class ValidatingModel extends Model { 
  static _validateProps(props) {
    if (typeof this.propTypes === 'object') {
      const result = PropTypes.checkPropTypes(this.propTypes, props, 'prop', this.modelName);
      if (result instanceof Error) {
        throw result;
      }
    }
  }

  static create(props) {
    if (typeof this.defaultProps === 'object') {
      const propsWithDefaults = Object.assign({}, this.defaultProps, props);
      this._validateProps(propsWithDefaults);
      return super.create(propsWithDefaults);
    }
    this._validateProps(props);
    return super.create(props);
  }
}