React transpiles some of its own `console.error` calls into a helper
that appends component stacks to those calls. However, this doesn't
cover user space `console.error` calls - which includes React helpers
that React has moved into third parties like createClass and prop-types.
The idea is that any user space component can add a warning just like
React can which is why React DevTools adds them too if they don't
already exist. Having them appended in both places is tricky because now
you have to know whether to remove them from React's logs.
Similarly it's often common for server-side frameworks to forget to
cover the `console.error` logs from other sources since React DevTools
isn't active there. However, it's also annoying to get component stacks
clogging the terminal - depending on where the log came from.
In the future `console.createTask()` will cover this use case natively
and when available we don't append them at all.
The new strategy relies on either:
- React DevTools existing to add them to React logs as well as third
parties.
- `console.createTask` being supported and surfaced.
- A third party framework showing the component stack either in an Error
Dialog or appended to terminal output.
For a third party to be able to implement this they need to be able to
get the component stack. To get the component stack from within a
`console.error` call you need to use the `React.captureOwnerStack()`
helper which is only available in `enableOwnerStacks` flag. However,
it's possible to polyfill with parent stacks using internals as a stop
gap. There's a question of whether React 19 should just go out with
`enableOwnerStacks` to expose this but regardless I think it's best it
doesn't include component stacks from the runtime for consistency.
In practice it's not really a regression though because typically either
of the other options exists and error dialogs don't implement
`console.error` overrides anyway yet. SSR terminals might miss them but
they'd only have them in DEV warnings to begin with an a subset of React
warnings. Typically those are either going to happen on the client
anyway or replayed.
Our tests are written to assert that component stacks work in various
scenarios all over the place. To ensure that this keeps working I
implement a "polyfill" that is similar to that expected a server
framework might do - in `assertConsoleErrorDev` and `toErrorDev`.
This PR doesn't yet change www or RN since they have their own forks of
consoleWithStackDev for now.
The full stack is the current execution stack (`new Error().stack`) +
the current owner stack (`React.captureOwnerStack()`).
The idea with the top frame was that when we append it to console.error
we'd include both since otherwise the true reason would be obscured
behind the little `>` to expand. So we'd just put both stack front and
center. By adding this into getCurrentStack it was easy to use the same
filtering. I never implemented in Fizz or Flight though.
However, with the public API `React.captureOwnerStack()` it's not
necessary to include the current stack since you already have it and
you'd have filtering capabilities in user space too.
Since I'm removing the component stacks from React itself we no longer
need this. It's expected that maybe RDT or framework polyfill would
include this same technique though.
We're removing this wrapper from the mainline but RN is still using
component stacks to filter out warnings.
This is unfortunate since it'll be hard to keep track of the interplay
with these, DevTools and how you're supposed to implement error dialogs
in userspace.
