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Alex Hunt ece8ca82cd Update JS API snapshot to group exports in single block (#52235)
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52235

Adds `organizeDeclarations` transform, replacing `sortTypeDefinitions`.

All `export declare ...` statements are now collected and represented at the end of the snapshot in a single `export {}` block — significantly improving readability and diffing.

Changelog: [Internal]

Reviewed By: j-piasecki

Differential Revision: D77150017

fbshipit-source-id: 1bd451c0e2a18fd6fc0504970b10a5d2502ac872
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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).