In CI, we run our test suite against multiple build configurations. For
example, we run our tests in both dev and prod, and in both the
experimental and stable release channels. This is to prevent accidental
deviations in behavior between the different builds. If there's an
intentional deviation in behavior, the test author must account
for them.
However, we currently don't run tests against the www builds. That's
a problem, because it's common for features to land in www before they
land anywhere else, including the experimental release channel.
Typically we do this so we can gradually roll out the feature behind
a flag before deciding to enable it.
The way we test those features today is by mutating the
`shared/ReactFeatureFlags` module. There are a few downsides to this
approach, though. The flag is only overridden for the specific tests or
test suites where you apply the override. But usually what you want is
to run *all* tests with the flag enabled, to protect against unexpected
regressions.
Also, mutating the feature flags module only works when running the
tests against source, not against the final build artifacts, because the
ReactFeatureFlags module is inlined by the build script.
Instead, we should run the test suite against the www configuration,
just like we do for prod, experimental, and so on. I've added a new
command, `yarn test-www`. It automatically runs in CI.
Some of the www feature flags are dynamic; that is, they depend on
a runtime condition (i.e. a GK). These flags are imported from an
external module that lives in www. Those flags will be enabled for some
clients and disabled for others, so we should run the tests against
*both* modes.
So I've added a new global `__VARIANT__`, and a new test command `yarn
test-www-variant`. `__VARIANT__` is set to false by default; when
running `test-www-variant`, it's set to true.
If we were going for *really* comprehensive coverage, we would run the
tests against every possible configuration of feature flags: 2 ^
numberOfFlags total combinations. That's not practical, though, so
instead we only run against two combinations: once with `__VARIANT__`
set to `true`, and once with it set to `false`. We generally assume that
flags can be toggled independently, so in practice this should
be enough.
You can also refer to `__VARIANT__` in tests to detect which mode you're
running in. Or, you can import `shared/ReactFeatureFlags` and read the
specific flag you can about. However, we should stop mutating that
module going forward. Treat it as read-only.
In this commit, I have only setup the www tests to run against source.
I'll leave running against build for a follow up.
Many of our tests currently assume they run only in the default
configuration, and break when certain flags are toggled. Rather than fix
these all up front, I've hard-coded the relevant flags to the default
values. We can incrementally migrate those tests later.
* Update Flow to 0.84
* Fix violations
* Use inexact object syntax in files from fbsource
* Fix warning extraction to use a modern parser
* Codemod inexact objects to new syntax
* Tighten types that can be exact
* Revert unintentional formatting changes from codemod
* Don't bother including `unstable_` in error
The method names don't get stripped out of the production bundles
because they are passed as arguments to the error decoder.
Let's just always use the unprefixed APIs in the messages.
* Set up experimental builds
The experimental builds are packaged exactly like builds in the stable
release channel: same file structure, entry points, and npm package
names. The goal is to match what will eventually be released in stable
as closely as possible, but with additional features turned on.
Versioning and Releasing
------------------------
The experimental builds will be published to the same registry and
package names as the stable ones. However, they will be versioned using
a separate scheme. Instead of semver versions, experimental releases
will receive arbitrary version strings based on their content hashes.
The motivation is to thwart attempts to use a version range to match
against future experimental releases. The only way to install or depend
on an experimental release is to refer to the specific version number.
Building
--------
I did not use the existing feature flag infra to configure the
experimental builds. The reason is because feature flags are designed
to configure a single package. They're not designed to generate multiple
forks of the same package; for each set of feature flags, you must
create a separate package configuration.
Instead, I've added a new build dimension called the **release
channel**. By default, builds use the **stable** channel. There's
also an **experimental** release channel. We have the option to add more
in the future.
There are now two dimensions per artifact: build type (production,
development, or profiling), and release channel (stable or
experimental). These are separate dimensions because they are
combinatorial: there are stable and experimental production builds,
stable and experimental developmenet builds, and so on.
You can add something to an experimental build by gating on
`__EXPERIMENTAL__`, similar to how we use `__DEV__`. Anything inside
these branches will be excluded from the stable builds.
This gives us a low effort way to add experimental behavior in any
package without setting up feature flags or configuring a new package.
* Merged interaction-tracking package into react-scheduler
* Add tracking API to FB+www builds
* Added Rollup plugin to strip no-side-effect imports from Rollup bundles
* Re-bundle tracking and scheduling APIs on SECRET_INTERNALS object for UMD build (and provide lazy forwarding methods)
* Added some additional tests and fixtures
* Fixed broken UMD fixture in master (#13512)
* Remove EventListener fbjs utility
EventListener normalizes event subscription for <= IE8. This is no
longer necessary. element.addEventListener is sufficient.
* Remove an extra allocation for open source bundles
* Split into two functions to avoid extra runtime checks
* Revert unrelated changes
* Fix dead code elimination for feature flags
Turning flags into named exports fixes dead code elimination.
This required some restructuring of how we verify that flag types match up. I used the Check<> trick combined with import typeof, as suggested by @calebmer.
For www, we can no longer re-export `require('ReactFeatureFlags')` directly, and instead destructure it. This means flags have to be known at init time. This is already the case so it's not a problem. In fact it may be better since it removes extra property access in tight paths.
For things that we *want* to be dynamic on www (currently, only performance flag) we can export a function to toggle it, and then put it on the secret exports. In fact this is better than just letting everyone mutate the flag at arbitrary times since we can provide, e.g., a ref counting interface to it.
* Record sizes
