In the next major release, we intend to drop support for using the `act`
testing helper in production. (It already fires a warning.) The
rationale is that, in order for `act` to work, you must either mock the
testing environment or add extra logic at runtime. Mocking the testing
environment isn't ideal because it requires extra set up for the user.
Extra logic at runtime is fine only in development mode — we don't want
to slow down the production builds.
Since most people only run their tests in development mode, dropping
support for production should be fine; if there's demand, we can add it
back later using a special testing build that is identical to the
production build except for the additional testing logic.
One blocker for removing production support is that we currently use
`act` to test React itself. We must test React in both development and
production modes.
So, the solution is to fork `act` into separate public and
internal implementations:
- *public implementation of `act`* – exposed to users, only works in
development mode, uses special runtime logic, does not support partial
rendering
- *internal implementation of `act`* – private, works in both
development and productionm modes, only used by the React Core test
suite, uses no special runtime logic, supports partial rendering (i.e.
`toFlushAndYieldThrough`)
The internal implementation should mostly match the public
implementation's behavior, but since it's a private API, it doesn't have
to match exactly. It works by mocking the test environment: it uses a
mock build of Scheduler to flush rendering tasks, and Jest's mock timers
to flush Suspense placeholders.
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In this first commit, I've added the internal forks of `act` and
migrated our tests to use them. The public `act` implementation is
unaffected for now; I will leave refactoring/clean-up for a later step.
* Add autofix to cross-fork lint rule
* replace-fork: Replaces old fork contents with new
For each file in the new fork, copies the contents into the
corresponding file of the old fork, replacing what was already there.
In contrast to merge-fork, which performs a three-way merge.
* Replace old fork contents with new fork
First I ran `yarn replace-fork`.
Then I ran `yarn lint` with autofix enabled. There's currently no way to
do that from the command line (we should fix that), so I had to edit the
lint script file.
* Manual fix-ups
Removes dead branches, removes prefixes from internal fields. Stuff
like that.
* Fix DevTools tests
DevTools tests only run against the old fork, which is why I didn't
catch these earlier.
There is one test that is still failing. I'm fairly certain it's related
to the layout of the Suspense fiber: we no longer conditionally wrap the
primary children. They are always wrapped in an extra fiber.
Since this has been running in www for weeks without major issues, I'll
defer fixing the remaining test to a follow up.
The motivation for doing this is to make it impossible for additional
uses of pre-rendering to sneak into www without going through the
LegacyHidden abstraction. Since this feature was already disabled in
the new fork, this brings the two closer to parity.
The LegacyHidden abstraction itself still needs to opt into
pre-rendering somehow, so rather than totally disabling the feature, I
updated the `hidden` prop check to be obnoxiously specific. Before, you
could set it to any truthy value; now, you must set it to the string
"unstable-do-not-use-legacy-hidden".
The node will still be hidden in the DOM, since any truthy value will
cause the browser to apply a style of `display: none`.
I will have to update the LegacyHidden component in www to use the
obnoxious string prop. This doesn't block merge, though, since the
behavior is gated by a dynamic flag. I will update the component before
I enable the flag.
* Expose LegacyHidden type
I will use this internally at Facebook to migrate away from
<div hidden />. The end goal is to migrate to the Offscreen type, but
that has different semantics. This is an incremental step.
* Disable <div hidden /> API in new fork
Migrates to the unstable_LegacyHidden type instead. The old fork does
not support the new component type, so I updated the tests to use an
indirection that picks the correct API. I will remove this once the
LegacyHidden (and/or Offscreen) type has landed in both implementations.
* Add gated warning for `<div hidden />` API
Only exists so we can detect callers in www and migrate them to the new
API. Should not visible to anyone outside React Core team.
We've been shipping unprefixed experimental APIs (like `createRoot` and
`useTransition`) to the Experimental release channel, with the rationale
that because these APIs do not appear in any stable release, we're free
to change or remove them later without breaking any downstream projects.
What we didn't consider is that downstream projects might be tempted to
use feature detection:
```js
const useTransition = React.useTransition || fallbackUseTransition;
```
This pattern assumes that the version of `useTransition` that exists in
the Experimental channel today has the same API contract as the final
`useTransition` API that we'll eventually ship to stable.
To discourage feature detection, I've added an `unstable_` prefix to
all of our unstable APIs.
The Facebook builds still have the unprefixed APIs, though. We will
continue to support those; if we make any breaking changes, we'll
migrate the internal callers like we usually do. To make testing easier,
I added the `unstable_`-prefixed APIs to the www builds, too. That way
our tests can always use the prefixed ones without gating on the
release channel.
Previously, we transformed
```
let Foo = styled.div``;
```
to
```
let Foo = _c1 = styled.div``;
```
and then babel-plugin-styled-components would infer `_c1` as the display name. Widen the existing case that applies to function expressions to apply to any type of variable declaration.
* Upgrade fbjs-scripts
This script takes into account the NODE_ENV as part of jest cache keys.
This avoids flaky tests since we depend on different transforms in prod
and dev.
* Upgrade Fresh test to Babel 7 transform
Some of our internal reconciler types have leaked into other packages.
Usually, these types are treated as opaque; we don't read and write
to its fields. This is good.
However, the type is often passed back to a reconciler method. For
example, React DOM creates a FiberRoot with `createContainer`, then
passes that root to `updateContainer`. It doesn't do anything with the
root except pass it through, but because `updateContainer` expects a
full FiberRoot, React DOM is still coupled to all its fields.
I don't know if there's an idiomatic way to handle this in Flow. Opaque
types are simlar, but those only work within a single file. AFAIK,
there's no way to use a package as the boundary for opaqueness.
The immediate problem this presents is that the reconciler refactor will
involve changes to our internal data structures. I don't want to have to
fork every single package that happens to pass through a Fiber or
FiberRoot, or access any one of its fields. So my current plan is to
share the same Flow type across both forks. The shared type will be a
superset of each implementation's type, e.g. Fiber will have both an
`expirationTime` field and a `lanes` field. The implementations will
diverge, but not the types.
To do this, I lifted the type definitions into a separate module.
* Enable prefer-const rule
Stylistically I don't like this but Closure Compiler takes advantage of
this information.
* Auto-fix lints
* Manually fix the remaining callsites
* Move remaining things to named exports
The interesting case here is the noop renderers. The wrappers around the
reconciler now changed to use a local export that gets mutated.
ReactNoop and ReactNoopPersistent now have to destructure the object to
list out the names it's going to export. We should probably refactor
ReactNoop away from createReactNoop. Especially since it's also not Flow
typed.
* Switch interactions to star exports
This will have esModule compatibility flag on them. They should ideally
export default instead.
* Update Flow to 0.84
* Fix violations
* Use inexact object syntax in files from fbsource
* Fix warning extraction to use a modern parser
* Codemod inexact objects to new syntax
* Tighten types that can be exact
* Revert unintentional formatting changes from codemod
* [Fresh] Detect root updates more reliably
* [Fresh] Use WeakMap for root elements
* [Fresh] Make initial failures recoverable too
* Fix DevTools check
* Fix wrong flow type
* Tests run in experimental mode by default
For local development, you usually want experiments enabled. Unless
the release channel is set with an environment variable, tests will
run with __EXPERIMENTAL__ set to `true`.
* Remove concurrent APIs from stable builds
Those who want to try concurrent mode should use the experimental
builds instead.
I've left the `unstable_` prefixed APIs in the Facebook build so we
can continue experimenting with them internally without blessing them
for widespread use.
* Turn on SSR flags in experimental build
* Remove prefixed concurrent APIs from www build
Instead we'll use the experimental builds when syncing to www.
* Remove "canary" from internal React version string
