React: Modernize build process / tooling

Created on 29 Apr 2016  ·  3Comments  ·  Source: facebook/react

This is mostly a prereq of #6655.

Goals:

  • align build tooling (right now mixing grunt & gulp - commit, probably to gulp #4927)
  • add watching, should be fast to rebuild and test changes in browser

    • could be something like webpack hot reloading

  • move shared tooling back into fbjs (babel plugin, custom lint rule)

Non-goals but things to keep in mind:

  • alternate build approaches, in particular flat bundling - it needs to be easy to swap this in
  • releasing from master - we may want to have development happen such that feature flags are used to turn on/off features. we may want the build result to be a static flag set (no runtime checks) but would need to be possible to target any flag combination easily
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Not sure, I think these are open areas:

  • add watching, should be fast to rebuild and test changes in browser
  • move shared tooling back into fbjs (babel plugin, custom lint rule)
picture gaearon on 5 Apr 2017
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The work for this has been merged in PR: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/9327

trueadm picture trueadm on 5 Apr 2017

Not sure, I think these are open areas:

  • add watching, should be fast to rebuild and test changes in browser
  • move shared tooling back into fbjs (babel plugin, custom lint rule)
gaearon picture gaearon on 5 Apr 2017
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We got rid of fbjs and actually seem to prefer to own our scripts.
As for watching.. seems like it might be complicated with our pipeline. Maybe not worth it.

gaearon picture gaearon on 15 Aug 2018
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