react/scripts/error-codes
Sebastian Markbåge b229f540e2
[Flight] Emit debug info for a Server Component (#28272)
This adds a new DEV-only row type `D` for DebugInfo. If we see this in
prod, that's an error. It can contain extra debug information about the
Server Components (or Promises) that were compiled away during the
server render. It's DEV-only since this can contain sensitive
information (similar to errors) and since it'll be a lot of data, but
it's worth using the same stream for simplicity rather than a
side-channel.

In this first pass it's just the Server Component's name but I'll keep
adding more debug info to the stream, and it won't always just be a
Server Component's stack frame.

Each row can get more debug rows data streaming in as it resolves and
renders multiple server components in a row.

The data structure is just a side-channel and it would be perfectly fine
to ignore the D rows and it would behave the same as prod. With this
data structure though the data is associated with the row ID / chunk, so
you can't have inline meta data. This means that an inline Server
Component that doesn't get an ID otherwise will need to be outlined. The
way I outline Server Components is using a direct reference where it's
synchronous though so on the client side it behaves the same (i.e.
there's no lazy wrapper in this case).

In most cases the `_debugInfo` is on the Promises that we yield and we
also expose this on the `React.Lazy` wrappers. In the case where it's a
synchronous render it might attach this data to Elements or Arrays
(fragments) too.

In a future PR I'll wire this information up with Fiber to stash it in
the Fiber data structures so that DevTools can pick it up. This property
and the information in it is not limited to Server Components. The name
of the property that we look for probably shouldn't be `_debugInfo`
since it's semi-public. Should consider the name we use for that.

If it's a synchronous render that returns a string or number (text node)
then we don't have anywhere to attach them to. We could add a
`React.Lazy` wrapper for those but I chose to prioritize keeping the
data structure untouched. Can be useful if you use Server Components to
render data instead of React Nodes.
2024-02-08 11:01:32 -05:00
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__tests__ Update jest escapeString config (#26140) 2023-02-10 00:08:37 +01:00
codes.json [Flight] Emit debug info for a Server Component (#28272) 2024-02-08 11:01:32 -05:00
extract-errors.js Follow-up improvements to error code extraction infra (#22516) 2021-10-31 15:37:32 -07:00
invertObject.js [useFormState] Allow sync actions (#27571) 2023-10-31 23:32:31 -04:00
README.md Follow-up improvements to error code extraction infra (#22516) 2021-10-31 15:37:32 -07:00
transform-error-messages.js Upgrade prettier (#26081) 2023-01-31 08:25:05 -05:00
Types.js Upgrade prettier (#26081) 2023-01-31 08:25:05 -05:00

The error code system substitutes React's error messages with error IDs to provide a better debugging support in production. Check out the blog post here.

  • codes.json contains the mapping from IDs to error messages. This file is generated by the Gulp plugin and is used by both the Babel plugin and the error decoder page in our documentation. This file is append-only, which means an existing code in the file will never be changed/removed.
  • extract-errors.js is an node script that traverses our codebase and updates codes.json. You can test it by running yarn extract-errors. It works by crawling the build artifacts directory, so you need to have either run the build script or downloaded pre-built artifacts (e.g. with yarn download build). It works with partial builds, too.
  • transform-error-messages is a Babel pass that rewrites error messages to IDs for a production (minified) build.