This disables symbol renaming in production builds. The original
variable and function names are preserved. All other forms of
compression applied by Closure (dead code elimination, inlining, etc)
are unchanged — the final program is identical to what we were producing
before, just in a more readable form.
The motivation is to make it easier to debug React issues that only
occur in production — the same reason we decided to start shipping
sourcemaps in #28827 and #28827.
However, because most apps run their own minification step on their npm
dependencies, it's not necessary for us to minify the symbols before
publishing — it'll be handled the app, if desired.
This is the same strategy Meta has used to ship React for years. The
React build itself has unminified symbols, but they get minified as part
of Meta's regular build pipeline.
Even if an app does not minify their npm dependencies, gzip covers most
of the cost of symbol renaming anyway.
This saves us from having to ship sourcemaps, which means even apps that
don't have sourcemaps configured will be able to debug the React build
as easily as they would any other npm dependency.
This joins the static (prerender) builds with the server builds but
doesn't change the public entry points.
The idea of two separate bundles is that we'd have a specialized build
for Fizz just for the prerender that could do a lot more. However, in
practice the code is implemented with a dynamic check so it's in both.
It's also not a lot of code.
At the same time if you do have a set up that includes both the
prerender and the render in the same build output, this just doubles the
server bundle size for no reason.
So we might as well merge them into one build. However, I don't expose
the `prerender` from `/server`. Instead it's just exposed from the
public `/static` entry point. This leaves us with the option to go back
to separate builds later if it diverges more in the future.
We currently abuse the browser builds for Web streams derived
environments. We already have a special build for Bun but we should also
have one for [other "edge"
runtimes](https://runtime-keys.proposal.wintercg.org/) so that we can
maximally take advantage of the APIs that exist on each platform.
In practice, we currently check for a global property called
`AsyncLocalStorage` in the server browser builds which we shouldn't
really do since browsers likely won't ever have it. Additionally, this
should probably move to an import which we can't add to actual browser
builds where that will be an invalid import. So it has to be a separate
build. That's not done yet in this PR but Vercel will follow
Cloudflare's lead here.
The `deno` key still points to the browser build since there's no
AsyncLocalStorage there but it could use this same or a custom build if
support is added.
