This commit updates the file locations and bulid configurations for
flight in preparation for new static entrypoints. This follows a
structure similar to Fizz which has a unified build but exports methods
from different top level entrypoints. This PR doesn't actually add the
new top level entrypoints however, that will arrive in a later update.
Stacked on #30401.
Previously we were transferring the original V8 stack trace string to
the client and then parsing it there. However, really the server is the
one that knows what format it is and it should be able to vary by server
environment.
We also don't use the raw string anymore (at least not in
enableOwnerStacks). We always create the native Error stacks.
The string also made it unclear which environment it is and it was
tempting to just use it as is.
Instead I parse it on the server and make it a structured stack in the
transfer format. It also makes it clear that it needs to be formatted in
the current environment before presented.
Stacked on #28798.
Add another AsyncLocalStorage to the FlightServerConfig. This context
tracks data on a per component level. Currently the only thing we track
is the owner in DEV.
AsyncLocalStorage around each component comes with a performance cost so
we only do it DEV. It's not generally a particularly safe operation
because you can't necessarily associate side-effects with a component
based on execution scope. It can be a lazy initializer or cache():ed
code etc. We also don't support string refs anymore for a reason.
However, it's good enough for optional dev only information like the
owner.
When developing in an RSC environment, you should be able to work in a
single environment as if it was a unified environment. With thrown
errors we already serialize them and then rethrow them on the client.
Since by default we log them via onError both in Flight and Fizz, you
can get the same log in the RSC runtime, the SSR runtime and on the
client.
With console logs made in SSR renders, you typically replay the same
code during hydration on the client. So for example warnings already
show up both in the SSR logs and on the client (although not guaranteed
to be the same). You could just spend your time in the client and you'd
be fine.
Previously, RSC logs would not be replayed because they don't hydrate.
So it's easy to miss warnings for example.
With this approach, we replay RSC logs both during SSR so they end up in
the SSR logs and on the client. That way you can just stay in the
browser window during normal development cycles. You shouldn't have to
care if your component is a server or client component when working on
logical things or iterating on a product.
With this change, you probably should mostly ignore the Flight log
stream and just look at the client or maybe the SSR one. Unless you're
digging into something specific. In particular if you just naively run
both Flight and Fizz in the same terminal you get duplicates. I like to
run out fixtures `yarn dev:region` and `yarn dev:global` in two separate
terminals.
Console logs may contain complex objects which can be inspected. Ideally
a DevTools inspector could reach into the RSC server and remotely
inspect objects using the remote inspection protocol. That way complex
objects can be loaded on demand as you expand into them. However, that
is a complex environment to set up and the server might not even be
alive anymore by the time you inspect the objects. Therefore, I do a
best effort to serialize the objects using the RSC protocol but limit
the depth that can be rendered.
This feature is only own in dev mode since it can be expensive.
In a follow up, I'll give the logs a special styling treatment to
clearly differentiate them from logs coming from the client. As well as
deal with stacks.
This wires up the use of `async_hooks` in the Node build (as well as the
Edge build when a global is available) in DEV mode only. This will be
used to track debug info about what suspended during an RSC pass.
Enabled behind a flag for now.
This isn't really meant to be actually used, there are many issues with
this approach, but it shows the capabilities as a proof-of-concept.
It's a new reference implementation package `react-server-dom-esm` as
well as a fixture in `fixtures/flight-esm` (fork of `fixtures/flight`).
This works pretty much the same as pieces we already have in the Webpack
implementation but instead of loading modules using Webpack on the
client it uses native browser ESM.
To really show it off, I don't use any JSX in the fixture and so it also
doesn't use Babel or any compilation of the files.
This works because we don't actually bundle the server in the reference
implementation in the first place. We instead use [Node.js
Loaders](https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#loaders) to intercept files
that contain `"use client"` and `"use server"` and replace them. There's
a simple check for those exact bytes, and no parsing, so this is very
fast.
Since the client isn't actually bundled, there's no module map needed.
We can just send the file path to the file we want to load in the RSC
payload for client references.
Since the existing reference implementation for Node.js already used ESM
to load modules on the server, that all works the same, including Server
Actions. No bundling.
There is one case that isn't implemented here. Importing a `"use
server"` file from a Client Component. We don't have that implemented in
the Webpack reference implementation neither - only in Next.js atm. In
Webpack it would be implemented as a Webpack loader.
There are a few ways this can be implemented without a bundler:
- We can intercept the request from the browser importing this file in
the HTTP server, and do a quick scan for `"use server"` in the file and
replace it just like we do with loaders in Node.js. This is effectively
how Vite works and likely how anyone using this technique would have to
support JSX anyway.
- We can use native browser "loaders" once that's eventually available
in the same way as in Node.js.
- We can generate import maps for each file and replace it with a
pointer to a placeholder file. This requires scanning these ahead of
time which defeats the purposes.
Another case that's not implemented is the inline `"use server"` closure
in a Server Component. That would require the existing loader to be a
bit smarter but would still only "compile" files that contains those
bytes in the fast path check. This would also happen in the loader that
already exists so wouldn't do anything substantially different than what
we currently have here.
Josh Story
Sebastian Markbåge