It's noted on the docs pages at https://reactjs.org/docs/strict-mode.html

react-dom currently disables/mutates the global console in strict mode.

This seems to be an intentional feature/bug that's an unnecessary inconvenience.

React version: 17.0.1

Steps To Reproduce

1. Use react-dom in strict mode
2. Try to log something

The current behavior

logging is disabled in strict-mode

The expected behavior

Possible better solutions:

• Make it more obvious that the console is being mutated/disabled
• Use a proxy