This lets the client bundle encode Server References without them first
being passed from an RSC payload. Like if you just import `"use server"`
from the client. A bundler could already emit these proxies to be called
on the client but the subtle difference is that those proxies couldn't
be passed back into the server by reference. They have to be registered
with React.
We don't currently implement importing `"use server"` from client
components in the reference implementation. It'd need to expand the
Webpack plugin with a loader that rewrites files with the `"use server"`
in the client bundle.
```
"use server";
export async function action() {
...
}
```
->
```
import {createServerReference} from "react-server-dom-webpack/client";
import {callServer} from "some-router/call-server";
export const action = createServerReference('1234#action', callServer);
```
The technique I use here is that the compiled output has to call
`createServerReference(id, callServer)` with the `$$id` and proxy
implementation. We then return a proxy function that is registered with
a WeakMap to the particular instance of the Flight Client.
This might be hard to implement because it requires emitting module
imports to a specific stateful runtime module in the compiler. A benefit
is that this ensures that this particular reference is locked to a
specific client if there are multiple - e.g. talking to different
servers.
It's fairly arbitrary whether we use a WeakMap technique (like we do on
the client) vs an `$$id` (like we do on the server). Not sure what's
best overall. The WeakMap is nice because it doesn't leak implementation
details that might be abused to consumers. We should probably pick one
and unify.
This is just moving some stuff around and renaming things.
This tuple is opaque to the Flight implementation and we should probably
encode it separately as a single string instead of a model object.
The term "Metadata" isn't the same as when used for ClientReferences so
it's not really the right term anyway.
I also made it optional since a bound function with no arguments bound
is technically different than a raw instance of that function (it's a
clone).
I also renamed the type ReactModel to ReactClientValue. This is the
generic serializable type for something that can pass through the
serializable boundary from server to client. There will be another one
for client to server.
I also filled in missing classes and ensure the serializable sub-types
are explicit. E.g. Array and Thenable.
This splits out the Edge and Node implementations of Flight Client into
their own implementations. The Node implementation now takes a Node
Stream as input.
I removed the bundler config from the Browser variant because you're
never supposed to use that in the browser since it's only for SSR.
Similarly, it's required on the server. This also enables generating a
SSR manifest from the Webpack plugin. This is necessary for SSR so that
you can reverse look up what a client module is called on the server.
I also removed the option to pass a callServer from the server. We might
want to add it back in the future but basically, we don't recommend
calling Server Functions from render for initial render because if that
happened client-side it would be a client-side waterfall. If it's never
called in initial render, then it also shouldn't ever happen during SSR.
This might be considered too restrictive.
~This also compiles the unbundled packages as ESM. This isn't strictly
necessary because we only need access to dynamic import to load the
modules but we don't have any other build options that leave
`import(...)` intact, and seems appropriate that this would also be an
ESM module.~ Went with `import(...)` in CJS instead.
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