## Summary
Our toy webpack plugin for Server Components is pretty broken right now
because, now that `.client.js` convention is gone, it ends up adding
every single JS file it can find (including `node_modules`) as a
potential async dependency. Instead, it should only look for files with
the `'use client'` directive.
The ideal way is to implement this by bundling the RSC graph first.
Then, we would know which `'use client'` files were actually discovered
— and so there would be no point to scanning the disk for them. That's
how Next.js bundler does it.
We're not doing that here.
This toy plugin is very simple, and I'm not planning to do heavy
lifting. I'm just bringing it up to date with the convention. The change
is that we now read every file we discover (alas), bail if it has no
`'use client'`, and parse it if it does (to verify it's actually used as
a directive). I've changed to use `acorn-loose` because it's forgiving
of JSX (and likely TypeScript/Flow). Otherwise, this wouldn't work on
uncompiled source.
## Test plan
Verified I can get our initial Server Components Demo running after this
change. Previously, it would get stuck compiling and then emit thousands
of errors.
Also confirmed the fixture still works. (It doesn’t work correctly on
the first load after dev server starts, but that’s already the case on
main so seems unrelated.)
This is just moving some stuff around and renaming things.
This tuple is opaque to the Flight implementation and we should probably
encode it separately as a single string instead of a model object.
The term "Metadata" isn't the same as when used for ClientReferences so
it's not really the right term anyway.
I also made it optional since a bound function with no arguments bound
is technically different than a raw instance of that function (it's a
clone).
I also renamed the type ReactModel to ReactClientValue. This is the
generic serializable type for something that can pass through the
serializable boundary from server to client. There will be another one
for client to server.
I also filled in missing classes and ensure the serializable sub-types
are explicit. E.g. Array and Thenable.
We always look up these references in a map so it doesn't matter what
their value is. It could be a hash for example.
The loaders now encode a single $$id instead of filepath + name.
This changes the react-client-manifest to have a single level. The value
inside the map is still split into module id + export name because
that's what gets looked up in webpack.
The react-ssr-manifest is still two levels because that's a reverse
lookup.
This proxies requests through the global server instead of requesting
RSC responses from the regional server. This is a bit closer to
idiomatic, and closer to SSR.
This also wires up HMR using the Middleware technique instead of server.
This will be an important part of RSC compatibility because there will
be a `react-refresh` aspect to the integration.
This convention uses `Accept` header to branch a URL between HTML/RSC
but it could be anything really. Special headers, URLs etc. We might be
more opinionated about this in the future but now it's up to the router.
Some fixes for Node 16/17 support in the loader and fetch polyfill.
When we have a key we read displayName eagerly for future warnings.
In general, React should be inspecting if something is a client
reference before dotting into it. However, we use displayName a lot and
it kind of has defined meaning for debugging everywhere it's used so
seems fine to treat this as undefined.
This is the first of a series of PRs, that let you pass functions, by
reference, to the client and back. E.g. through Server Context. It's
like client references but they're opaque on the client and resolved on
the server.
To do this, for security, you must opt-in to exposing these functions to
the client using the `"use server"` directive. The `"use client"`
directive lets you enter the client from the server. The `"use server"`
directive lets you enter the server from the client.
This works by tagging those functions as Server References. We could
potentially expand this to other non-serializable or stateful objects
too like classes.
This only implements server->server CJS imports and server->server ESM
imports. We really should add a loader to the webpack plug-in for
client->server imports too. I'll leave closures as an exercise for
integrators.
You can't "call" a client reference on the server, however, you can
"call" a server reference on the client. This invokes a callback on the
Flight client options called `callServer`. This lets a router implement
calling back to the server. Effectively creating an RPC. This is using
JSON for serializing those arguments but more utils coming from
client->server serialization.
This updates the Flight fixture to support the new ESM loaders in newer
versions of Node.js.
It also uses native fetch since react-fetch is gone now. (This part
requires Node 18 to run the fixture.)
I also updated everything to use the `"use client"` convention instead
of file name based convention.
The biggest hack here is that the Webpack plugin now just writes every
`.js` file in the manifest. This needs to be more scoped. In practice,
this new convention effectively requires you to traverse the server
graph first to find the actual used files. This is enough to at least
run our own fixture though.
I didn't update the "blocks" fixture.
More details in each commit message.
This is because Webpack has a `typeof ... === 'object'` before its esm
compat test.
This is unfortunate because it means we can't have a nice error in CJS
when someone does this:
```
const fn = require('client-fn');
fn();
```
I also fixed some checks in the validator that read off the client ref.
It shouldn't do those checks against a client ref, since those now
throw.
The old version of prettier we were using didn't support the Flow syntax
to access properties in a type using `SomeType['prop']`. This updates
`prettier` and `rollup-plugin-prettier` to the latest versions.
I added the prettier config `arrowParens: "avoid"` to reduce the diff
size as the default has changed in Prettier 2.0. The largest amount of
changes comes from function expressions now having a space. This doesn't
have an option to preserve the old behavior, so we have to update this.
This renames Module References to Client References, since they are in
the server->client direction.
I also changed the Proxies exposed from the `node-register` loader to
provide better error messages. Ideally, some of this should be
replicated in the ESM loader too but neither are the source of truth.
We'll replicate this in the static form in the Next.js loaders. cc
@huozhi @shuding
- All references are now functions so that when you call them on the
server, we can yield a better error message.
- References that are themselves already referring to an export name are
now proxies that error when you dot into them.
- `use(...)` can now be used on a client reference to unwrap it server
side and then pass a reference to the awaited value.
This enables the "exact_empty_objects" setting for Flow which makes
empty objects exact instead of building up the type as properties are
added in code below. This is in preparation to Flow 191 which makes this
the default and removes the config.
More about the change in the Flow blog
[here](https://medium.com/flow-type/improved-handling-of-the-empty-object-in-flow-ead91887e40c).
This setting is an incremental path to the next Flow version enforcing
type annotations on most functions (except some inline callbacks).
Used
```
node_modules/.bin/flow codemod annotate-functions-and-classes --write .
```
to add a majority of the types with some hand cleanup when for large
inferred objects that should just be `Fiber` or weird constructs
including `any`.
Suppressed the remaining issues.
Builds on #25918
* Facebook -> Meta in copyright
rg --files | xargs sed -i 's#Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.#Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.#g'
* Manual tweaks
- method unbinding is no longer supported in Flow for soundness, this added a bunch of suppressions
- Flow now prevents objects to be supertypes of interfaces/classes
ghstack-source-id: d7749cbad8
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/25412
This lets you await the result of require(...) which will then
mark the result as async which will then let the client unwrap the Promise
before handing it over in the same way.
* Move files
* Update paths
* Rename import variables
* Rename /server to /writer
This is mainly because "React Server Server" is weird so we need another
dimension.
* Use "react-server" convention to enforce that writer is only loaded in a server