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Alex Hunt 050fb25c14 Add debug flag to show versionExportedApis graph in output (#52298)
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52298

Exposes the ability to output inline debug annotations for the `versionExportedApis` transform (D77303917) as a formalised `--debug-version-annotations` CLI flag.

This is helpful for debugging and future maintenance, and will be used to show the effect of the next diffs.

Changelog: [Internal]

Reviewed By: cipolleschi

Differential Revision: D77373723

fbshipit-source-id: 91c91abcb657ab88ee2f8209efccb4024602acc7
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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).