## Summary
Currently when cloning nodes in Fabric, we reset a node's children on
each clone, and then repeatedly call appendChild to restore the previous
list of children (even if it was quasi-identical to before). This causes
unnecessary invalidation of the layout state in Fabric's ShadowNode data
(which in turn may require additional yoga clones) and extra JSI calls.
This PR adds a feature flag to pass in the children as part of the clone
call, so Fabric always has a complete view of the node that's being
mutated.
This feature flag requires matching changes in the react-native repo:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/39817
## How did you test this change?
Unit test added demonstrates the new behaviour
```
yarn test -r www-modern ReactFabric-test
yarn test ReactFabric-test.internal
```
Tested a manual sync into React Native and verified core surfaces render
correctly.
## Summary
This is part of an effort to align the event loop in React Native with
its behavior on the Web. In this case, we're going to test enabling
microtasks in React Native (Fabric) and we need React to schedule work
using microtasks if available there. This just adds a feature flag to
configure that behavior at runtime.
## How did you test this change?
* Reviewed the generated code, which looks ok.
* Did a manual sync of this PR to Meta's internal infra and tested it
with my changes to enable microtasks in RN/Hermes.
This puts the change introduced by #26611 behind a flag until Meta is
able to roll it out. Disabling the flag reverts back to the old
behavior, where retries are throttled if there's still data remaining in
the tree, but not if all the data has finished loading.
The new behavior is still enabled in the public builds.
When React receives new input (via `setState`, a Suspense promise
resolution, and so on), it needs to ensure there's a rendering task
associated with the update. Most of this happens
`ensureRootIsScheduled`.
If a single event contains multiple updates, we end up running the
scheduling code once per update. But this is wasteful because we really
only need to run it once, at the end of the event (or in the case of
flushSync, at the end of the scope function's execution).
So this PR moves the scheduling logic to happen in a microtask instead.
In some cases, we will force it run earlier than that, like for
`flushSync`, but since updates are batched by default, it will almost
always happen in the microtask. Even for discrete updates.
In production, this should have no observable behavior difference. In a
testing environment that uses `act`, this should also not have a
behavior difference because React will push these tasks to an internal
`act` queue.
However, tests that do not use `act` and do not simulate an actual
production environment (like an e2e test) may be affected. For example,
before this change, if a test were to call `setState` outside of `act`
and then immediately call `jest.runAllTimers()`, the update would be
synchronously applied. After this change, that will no longer work
because the rendering task (a timer, in this case) isn't scheduled until
after the microtask queue has run.
I don't expect this to be an issue in practice because most people do
not write their tests this way. They either use `act`, or they write
e2e-style tests.
The biggest exception has been... our own internal test suite. Until
recently, many of our tests were written in a way that accidentally
relied on the updates being scheduled synchronously. Over the past few
weeks, @tyao1 and I have gradually converted the test suite to use a new
set of testing helpers that are resilient to this implementation detail.
(There are also some old Relay tests that were written in the style of
React's internal test suite. Those will need to be fixed, too.)
The larger motivation behind this change, aside from a minor performance
improvement, is we intend to use this new microtask to perform
additional logic that doesn't yet exist. Like inferring the priority of
a custom event.
* 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
* Re-add old Fabric Offscreen impl behind flag
There's a chance that #21960 will affect layout in a way that we don't
expect, so I'm adding back the old implementation so we can toggle the
feature with a flag.
The flag should read from the ReactNativeFeatureFlags shim so that we
can change it at runtime. I'll do that separately.
* Import dynamic RN flags from external module
Internal feature flags that we wish to control with a GK can now be
imported from an external module, which I've called
"ReactNativeInternalFeatureFlags".
We'll need to add this module to the downstream repo.
We can't yet use this in our tests, because we don't have a test
configuration that runs against the React Native feature flags fork. We
should set up that up the same way we did for www.
