In #26624, the ability to mark a client reference module as `async` in
the React client manifest was removed because it was not utilized by
Webpack, neither in `ReactFlightWebpackPlugin` nor in Next.js. However,
some bundlers and frameworks are sophisticated enough to properly handle
and identify async ESM modules (e.g., client component modules with
top-level `await`), most notably Turbopack in Next.js. Therefore, we
need to consider the `async` flag in the client manifest when resolving
the client reference metadata on the server. The SSR manifest cannot
override this flag, meaning that if a module is async, it must remain
async in all client environments.
x-ref: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/70022
Currently when we SSR a Flight response we do not emit any resources for
module imports. This means that when the client hydrates it won't have
already loaded the necessary scripts to satisfy the Imports defined in
the Flight payload which will lead to a delay in hydration completing.
This change updates `react-server-dom-webpack` and
`react-server-dom-esm` to emit async script tags in the head when we
encounter a modules in the flight response.
To support this we need some additional server configuration. We need to
know the path prefix for chunk loading and whether the chunks will load
with CORS or not (and if so with what configuration).
Hendrik Liebau
Josh Story