## What
This PR changes Next.js to bundle its vendored React libraries so that the App Router pages can use those built-in versions.
## Why
Next.js supports both Pages and App Router and we've gone through a lot of iteration to make sure that Next.js stays flexible wrt to the version of React used: in Pages, we want to use the React provided by the user and in the App Router, to be able to use it, we need to use the canary version of React, which we've built into Next.js for convenience.
The problem stems from the fact that you can't run two different instances of React (by design).
Previously we have a dual worker setup, where we would separate completely each Next.js versions (App and Pages) so that they would not overlap with each other, however this approach was not great performance and memory wise.
We've recently tried using an ESM loader and a single process, but this change would still opt you into the React canary version if you had an app page, which breaks some assumptions.
## How
A list of the changes in this PR:
### New versions of the Next.js runtime
Since we now compile a runtime per type of page (app/route/api/pages), in order to bundle the two versions of React that we vendored, we introduced a new type of bundle suffixed by `-experimental`. This bundle will have the bleeding edge React needed for Server Actions and Next.js will opt you in into that runtime automatically.
For internal contributors, it means that we now run a compiler for 10 subparts of Next.js:
- next_bundle_server
- next_bundle_pages_prod
- next_bundle_pages_turbo
- next_bundle_pages_dev
- next_bundle_app_turbo_experimental
- next_bundle_app_prod
- next_bundle_app_prod_experimental
- next_bundle_app_turbo
- next_bundle_app_dev_experimental
- next_bundle_app_dev
### Simplified require-hook
Since the versions of React are correctly re-routed at build time for app pages, we don't need the require hook anymore
### Turbopack changes
The bundling logic in Turbopack has been addressed to properly follow the new logic
### Changes to the shared contexts system
Some context files need to have a shared instance between the rendering runtime and the user code, like the one that powers the `next/image` component. In general, the aliasing setup takes care of that but we need the require hook for code that is not compiled to reroute to the correct runtime. This only happens for pages node_modules.
A new Turbopack resolving plugin has been added to handle that logic in Turbopack.
### Misc changes
- `runtime-config` (that powers `next/config`) has been converted to an `.external` file, as it should have been
- there are some rules that have been added to the aliases to support the usage of `react-dom/server` in a server-components. We can do that now since the runtime takes care of separating the versions of React.
Co-authored-by: JJ Kasper <22380829+ijjk@users.noreply.github.com>
## What?
In Next, rendering a route involves 3 layers:
- the routing layer, which will direct the request to the correct route to render
- the rendering layer, which will take a route and render it appropriately
- the user layer, which contains the user code
In #51831, in order to optimise the boot time of Next.js, I introduced a change that allowed the routing layer to be bundled. In this PR, I'm doing the same for the rendering layer. This is building up on @wyattjoh's work that initially split the routing and the rendering layer into separate entry-points.
The benefits of having this approach is that this allows us to compartmentalise the different part of Next, optimise them individually and making sure that serving a request is as efficient as possible, e.g. rendering a `pages` route should not need code from the `app router` to be used.
There are now 4 different rendering runtimes, depending on the route type:
- app pages: for App Router pages
- app routes: for App Router route handlers
- pages: for legacy pages
- pages api: for legacy API routes
This change should be transparent to the end user, beside faster cold boots.
## Notable changes
Doing this change required a lot of changes for Next.js under the hood in order to make the different layers play well together.
### New conventions for externals/shared modules
The big issue of bundling the rendering runtimes is that the user code needs to be able to reference an instance of a module/value created in Next during the render. This is the case when the user wants to access the router context during SSR via `next/link` for example; when you call `useContext(value)` the value needs to be the exact same reference to one as the one created by `createContext` earlier.
Previously, we were handling this case by making all files from Next that were affected by this `externals`, meaning that we were marking them not to be bundled.
**Why not keep it this way?**
The goal of this PR as stated previously was to make the rendering process as efficient as possible, so I really wanted to avoid extraneous fs reads to unoptimised code.
In order to "fix" it, I introduced two new conventions to the codebase:
- all files that explicitly need to be shared between a rendering runtime and the user code must be suffixed by `.shared-runtime` and exposed via adding a reference in the relevant `externals` file. At compilation time, a reference to a file ending with this will get re-written to the appropriate runtime.
- all files that need to be truly externals need to be suffixed by `.external`. At compilation time, a reference to it will stay as-is. This special case is needed mostly only for the async local storages that need to be shared with all three layers of Next.
As a side effect, we should be bundling more of the Next code in the user bundles, so it should be slightly more efficient.
### App route handlers are compiled on their own layer
App route handlers should be compiled in their own layer, this allows us to separate more cleanly the compilation logic here (we don't need to run the RSC logic for example).
### New rendering bundles
We now generate a prod and a dev bundle for:
- the routing server
- the app/pages SSR rendering process
- the API routes process
The development bundle is needed because:
- there is code in Next that relies on NODE_ENV
- because we opt out of the logic referencing the correct rendering runtime in dev for a `shared-runtime` file. This is because we don't need to and that Turbopack does not support rewriting an external to something that looks like this `require('foo').bar.baz` yet. We will need to fix that when Turbopack build ships.
### New development pipeline
Bundling Next is now required when developing on the repo so I extended the taskfile setup to account for that. The webpack config for Next itself lives in `webpack.config.js` and contains the logic for all the new bundles generated.
### Misc changes
There are some misc reshuffling in the code to better use the tree shaking abilities that we can now use.
fixes NEXT-1573
Co-authored-by: Alex Kirszenberg <1621758+alexkirsz@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/32045
doing `export { default } from 'module'` has some unexpected results for autocompletion in TypeScript, this PR changes root definitions to have a named default export where needed.
## Bug
- [x] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
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* Run prettier over examples
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