The error transform works by replacing calls to `invariant` with
an `if` statement.
Since we're replacing a call expression with a statement, Babel wraps
the new statement in an immediately-invoked function expression (IIFE).
This wrapper is unnecessary in practice because our `invariant` calls
are always part of their own expression statement.
In the production bundle, the function wrappers are removed by Closure.
But they remain in the development bundles.
This commit updates the transform to confirm that an `invariant` call
expression's parent node is an expression statement. (If not, it throws
a transform error.)
Then, it replaces the expression statement instead of the expression
itself, effectively removing the extraneous IIFE wrapper.
Upgraded from Babel 6 to Babel 7.
The only significant change seems to be the way `@babel/plugin-transform-classes` handles classes differently from `babel-plugin-transform-es2015-classes`. In regular mode, the former injects a `_createClass` function that increases the bundle size, and in the latter it removes the safeguard checks. However, this is okay because we don't all classes in new features, and we want to deprecate class usage in the future in the react repo.
Co-authored-by: Luna Ruan <luna@fb.com>
Co-authored-by: Abdul Rauf <abdulraufmujahid@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Maksim Markelov <maks-markel@mail.ru>
The React Native build does not minify error messages in production,
but it still needs to run the error messages transform to compile
`invariant` calls to `ReactError`. To do this, I added a `noMinify`
option to the Babel plugin. I also renamed it from
`minify-error-messages` to the more generic `transform-error-messages`.
