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Dawid Małecki f529fd6ba5 Add snapshot validation to build-types (#51893)
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/51893

This diff adds `--validate` flag that runs snapshot validation to determine if the `ReactNativeApi.d.ts` rollup has been changed (if JS public API has been touched). There was also an issue with `sortProperties` that reordered some properties (ex. in ImagePropsBase) after removing one of them (ex. accessible) which had negative impact on the displayed result.

### Motivation
Compare previous snapshot with the one built on the current revision to determine the impact of made changes on the public API surface. Display differences in human readable format using `diff` method from the `jest-diff` library.

For now `--validate` flag is not useful on its own. It should be used with `--withSnapshot` flag (which will be removed shortly and generating snapshot will be a default mechanism).

Changelog:
[General][Added] - Add `--validate` flag to `build-types` script for JS API snapshot validation.

Reviewed By: huntie

Differential Revision: D76135158

fbshipit-source-id: 53f5b142c66e3e3931961f741c3f2fab8ccdc228
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scripts/build-types

TypeScript build pipeline for React Native's JavaScript API.

Overview

yarn build-types is a custom build pipeline for translating React Native's Flow source code to TypeScript.

Specifically, it reduces the runtime JavaScript API of react-native into two outputs:

  • Generated TypeScript types
    Public user types for react-native, shipped to npm
    packages/react-native/types_generated/
  • Public API snapshot (experimental)
    Snapshot file of the public API shape, used by maintainers
    packages/react-native/ReactNativeApi.d.ts

Dependencies

yarn build-types makes use of the following dependencies, composed with other pre/post transformation steps and dependency resolution.

Usage

yarn build-types is designed to be run by maintainers with minimal arguments.

API snapshot generation is currently experimental, and will be folded into the default behaviour when ready.

# Build types
yarn build-types

# Build types + API snapshot (experimental)
yarn build-types --withSnapshot [--validate]

Configuration

Sparse configuration options are defined and documented in scripts/build-types/config.js.

About the two formats

Generated TypeScript types

types_generated/

Directory providing TypeScript user types for the react-native package, distributed via npm.

  • Gitignored.
  • Scoped to the index.d.ts entry point via package.json#exports.
  • Preserves unstable_ and experimental_ APIs.
  • Preserves doc comments.
  • Preserves source file names (for go to definition).

Public API snapshot (experimental)

ReactNative.d.ts

Provides a human-readable, maintainable reference of the React Native's public JavaScript API, optimized for developers and diff tooling.

  • Committed to the repo.
  • Strips unstable_ and experimental_ APIs.
  • Strips doc comments.
  • Strips source file names and some un-exported type names (WIP).