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.
* Expand fixture
Use .server convention. /server/index.js should really change too so it can be compiled but for now we treat it as bootstrapping code outside the compiled code.
Move App.server. It's part of the application code rather than the infra.
Add hybrid component used in both server/client and an extra component shared by multiple entry points.
* Use require.extensions to replace .client imports
The simplest server doesn't need AOT compilation. Instead we can just
configure require.extensions. This is probably not the best idea to use
in prod but is enough to show the set up.
* Rename Flight to Transport
Flight is still the codename for the implementation details (like Fiber).
However, now the public package is react-transport-... which is only
intended to be used directly by integrators.
* Rename names
This replaces the HTML renderer with instead resolving host elements into
arrays tagged with the react.element symbol. These turn into proper
React Elements on the client.
The symbol is encoded as the magical value "$". This has security implications
so this special value needs to remain escaped for other strings.
We could just encode the element as {$$typeof: "$", key: key props: props}
but that's a lot more bytes. So instead I encode it as:
["$", key, props] and then convert it back.
It would be nicer if React's reconciler could just accept these tuples.
* Move Flight DOM to Webpack Specific Packagee
We'll have Webpack specific coupling so we need to ensure that it can be
versioned separately from various Webpack versions. We'll also have builds
for other bundlers in the future.
* Move to peerDep
* Move DOM Flight Tests
* Merge ReactFlightIntegration into ReactFlightDOM
This was an integration test. We can add to it.
* Fix fixture paths
