We use this to encode the binary length of a large string without
escaping it. This is really kind of optional though. This lets a Server
that can't encode strings but just pass them along able to emit RSC -
albeit a less optimal format.
The only build we have that does that today is react-html but the FB
version of Flight had a similar constraint.
It's still possible to support binary data as long as
byteLengthOfBinaryChunk is implemented which doesn't require a text
encoder. Many streams (including Node streams) support binary OR string
chunks.
Even though the whole package is private right now. Once we publish it,
it'll likely be just the experimental channel first before upgrading to
stable.
This means it gets excluded from the built packages.
Stacked on top of #30121.
This is the same thing we do for `renderToReadableStream` so that you
don't have to manually inject it into the stream.
The only reason we didn't for `renderToString` / `renderToStaticMarkup`
was to preserve legacy behavior but since this is a new API we can
change that.
If you're rendering a partial it doesn't matter. This is likely what
you'd do for RSS feeds. The question is if you can reliably rely on the
doctype being used while rendering e-mails since many clients are so
quirky. However, if you're careful it also doesn't hurt so it seems best
to include it.
Follow up to #30105.
This supports `renderToMarkup` in a non-RSC environment (not the
`react-server` condition).
This is just a Fizz renderer but it errors at runtime when you use
state, effects or event handlers that would require hydration - like the
RSC version would. (Except RSC can give early errors too.)
To do this I have to move the `react-html` builds to a new `markup`
dimension out of the `dom-legacy` dimension so that we can configure
this differently from `renderToString`/`renderToStaticMarkup`.
Eventually that dimension can go away though if deprecated. That also
helps us avoid dynamic configuration and we can just compile in the
right configuration so the split helps anyway.
One consideration is that if a compiler strips out useEffects or inlines
initial state from useState, then it would not get called an the error
wouldn't happen. Therefore to preserve semantics, a compiler would need
to inject some call that can check the current renderer and whether it
should throw.
There is an argument that it could be useful to not error for these
because it's possible to write components that works with SSR but are
just optionally hydrated. However, there's also an argument that doing
that silently is too easy to lead to mistakes and it's better to error -
especially for the e-mail use case where you can't take it back but you
can replay a queue that had failures. There are other ways to
conditionally branch components intentionally. Besides if you want it to
be silent you can still use renderToString (or better yet
renderToReadableStream).
The primary mechanism is the RSC environment and the client-environment
is really the secondary one that's only there to support legacy
environments. So this also ensures parity with the primary environment.
Name of the package is tbd (straw: `react-html`). It's a new package
separate from `react-dom` though and can be used as a standalone package
- e.g. also from a React Native app.
```js
import {renderToMarkup} from '...';
const html = await renderToMarkup(<Component />);
```
The idea is that this is a helper for rendering HTML that is not
intended to be hydrated. It's primarily intended to support a subset of
HTML that can be used as embedding and not served as HTML documents from
HTTP. For example as e-mails or in RSS/Atom feeds or other
distributions. It's a successor to `renderToStaticMarkup`.
A few differences:
- This doesn't support "Client Components". It can only use the Server
Components subset. No useEffect, no useState etc. since it will never be
hydrated. Use of those are errors.
- You also can't pass Client References so you can't use components
marked with `"use client"`.
- Unlike `renderToStaticMarkup` this does support async so you can
suspend and use data from these components.
- Unlike `renderToReadableStream` this does not support streaming or
Suspense boundaries and any error rejects the promise. Since there's no
feasible way to "client render" or patch up the document.
- Form Actions are not supported since in an embedded environment
there's no place to post back to across versions. You can render plain
forms with fixed URLs though.
- You can't use any resource preloading like `preload()` from
`react-dom`.
## Implementation
This first version in this PR only supports Server Components since
that's the thing that doesn't have an existing API. Might add a Client
Components version later that errors.
We don't want to maintain a completely separate implementation for this
use case so this uses the `dom-legacy` build dimension to wire up a
build that encapsulates a Flight Server -> Flight Client -> Fizz stream
to render Server Components that then get SSR:ed.
There's no problem to use a Flight Client in a Server Component
environment since it's already supported for Server-to-Server. Both of
these use a bundler config that just errors for Client References though
since we don't need any bundling integration and this is just a
standalone package.
Running Fizz in a Server Component environment is a problem though
because it depends on "react" and it needs the client version.
Therefore, for this build we embed the client version of "react" shared
internals into the build. It doesn't need anything to be able to use
those APIs since you can't call the client APIs anyway.
One unfortunate thing though is that since Flight currently needs to go
to binary and back, we need TextEncoder/TextDecoder to be available but
this shouldn't really be necessary. Also since we use the legacy stream
config, large strings that use byteLengthOfChunk errors atm. This needs
to be fixed before shipping. I'm not sure what would be the best
layering though that isn't unnecessarily burdensome to maintain. Maybe
some kind of pass-through protocol that would also be useful in general
- e.g. when Fizz and Flight are in the same process.
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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Silbermann <silbermann.sebastian@gmail.com>
