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Andrew Clark 376d5c1b5a Split cross-package types from implementation
Some of our internal reconciler types have leaked into other packages.
Usually, these types are treated as opaque; we don't read and write
to its fields. This is good.

However, the type is often passed back to a reconciler method. For
example, React DOM creates a FiberRoot with `createContainer`, then
passes that root to `updateContainer`. It doesn't do anything with the
root except pass it through, but because `updateContainer` expects a
full FiberRoot, React DOM is still coupled to all its fields.

I don't know if there's an idiomatic way to handle this in Flow. Opaque
types are simlar, but those only work within a single file. AFAIK,
there's no way to use a package as the boundary for opaqueness.

The immediate problem this presents is that the reconciler refactor will
involve changes to our internal data structures. I don't want to have to
fork every single package that happens to pass through a Fiber or
FiberRoot, or access any one of its fields. So my current plan is to
share the same Flow type across both forks. The shared type will be a
superset of each implementation's type, e.g. Fiber will have both an
`expirationTime` field and a `lanes` field. The implementations will
diverge, but not the types.

To do this, I lifted the type definitions into a separate module.
2020-04-08 23:49:23 -07:00
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2020-02-27 14:11:40 -08:00

react-test-renderer

This package provides an experimental React renderer that can be used to render React components to pure JavaScript objects, without depending on the DOM or a native mobile environment.

Essentially, this package makes it easy to grab a snapshot of the "DOM tree" rendered by a React DOM or React Native component without using a browser or jsdom.

Documentation:

https://reactjs.org/docs/test-renderer.html

Usage:

const ReactTestRenderer = require('react-test-renderer');

const renderer = ReactTestRenderer.create(
  <Link page="https://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</Link>
);

console.log(renderer.toJSON());
// { type: 'a',
//   props: { href: 'https://www.facebook.com/' },
//   children: [ 'Facebook' ] }

You can also use Jest's snapshot testing feature to automatically save a copy of the JSON tree to a file and check in your tests that it hasn't changed: https://facebook.github.io/jest/blog/2016/07/27/jest-14.html.