- substr is Annex B
- substring silently flips its arguments if they're in the "wrong order", which is confusing
- slice is better than sliced bread (no pun intended) and also it works the same way on Arrays so there's less to remember
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> I'd be down to just lint and enforce a single form just for the potential compression savings by using a repeated string.
_Originally posted by @sebmarkbage in https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/26663#discussion_r1170455401_
Flow introduced a new syntax to annotated the context type of a
function, this tries to update the rest and add 1 example usage.
- 2b1fb91a55 already added the changes
required for eslint.
- Jest transform is updated to use the recommended `hermes-parser` which
can parse current and Flow syntax and will be updated in the future.
- Rollup uses a new plugin to strip the flow types. This isn't ideal as
the npm module is deprecated in favor of using `hermes-parser`, but I
couldn't figure out how to integrate that with Rollup.
* Add pragma for feature testing: @gate
The `@gate` pragma declares under which conditions a test is expected to
pass.
If the gate condition passes, then the test runs normally (same as if
there were no pragma).
If the conditional fails, then the test runs and is *expected to fail*.
An alternative to `it.experimental` and similar proposals.
Examples
--------
Basic:
```js
// @gate enableBlocksAPI
test('passes only if Blocks API is available', () => {/*...*/})
```
Negation:
```js
// @gate !disableLegacyContext
test('depends on a deprecated feature', () => {/*...*/})
```
Multiple flags:
```js
// @gate enableNewReconciler
// @gate experimental
test('needs both useEvent and Blocks', () => {/*...*/})
```
Logical operators (yes, I'm sorry):
```js
// @gate experimental && (enableNewReconciler || disableSchedulerTimeoutBasedOnReactExpirationTime)
test('concurrent mode, doesn\'t work in old fork unless Scheduler timeout flag is disabled', () => {/*...*/})
```
Strings, and comparion operators
No use case yet but I figure eventually we'd use this to gate on
different release channels:
```js
// @gate channel === "experimental" || channel === "modern"
test('works in OSS experimental or www modern', () => {/*...*/})
```
How does it work?
I'm guessing those last two examples might be controversial. Supporting
those cases did require implementing a mini-parser.
The output of the transform is very straightforward, though.
Input:
```js
// @gate a && (b || c)
test('some test', () => {/*...*/})
```
Output:
```js
_test_gate(ctx => ctx.a && (ctx.b || ctx.c, 'some test'), () => {/*...*/});
```
It also works with `it`, `it.only`, and `fit`. It leaves `it.skip` and
`xit` alone because those tests are disabled anyway.
`_test_gate` is a global method that I set up in our Jest config. It
works about the same as the existing `it.experimental` helper.
The context (`ctx`) argument is whatever we want it to be. I set it up
so that it throws if you try to access a flag that doesn't exist. I also
added some shortcuts for common gating conditions, like `old`
and `new`:
```js
// @gate experimental
test('experimental feature', () => {/*...*/})
// @gate new
test('only passes in new reconciler', () => {/*...*/})
```
Why implement this as a pragma instead of a runtime API?
- Doesn't require monkey patching built-in Jest methods. Instead it
compiles to a runtime function that composes Jest's API.
- Will be easy to upgrade if Jest ever overhauls their API or we switch
to a different testing framework (unlikely but who knows).
- It feels lightweight so hopefully people won't feel gross using it.
For example, adding or removing a gate pragma will never affect the
indentation of the test, unlike if you wrapped the test in a
conditional block.
* Compatibility with console error/warning tracking
We patch console.error and console.warning to track unexpected calls
in our tests. If there's an unexpected call, we usually throw inside
an `afterEach` hook. However, that's too late for tests that we
expect to fail, because our `_test_gate` runtime can't capture the
error. So I also check for unexpected calls inside `_test_gate`.
* Move test flags to dedicated file
Added some instructions for how the flags are set up and how to
use them.
* Add dynamic version of gate API
Receives same flags as the pragma.
If we ever decide to revert the pragma, we can codemod them to use
this instead.
