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[gaearon]

Feel free to discuss in this PR!

[timdorr]

⚠️ DANGER ZONE⚠️

[gaearon]

It'll go to a package so people who rely on it can use it separately.

[aickin]

As always, thanks for posting these. Two questions:

1. I'm curious about the mentions of SSR, which make it sound like there may be some difficulties with Fiber + SSR. Can you expand on this? From the goals section, it seems that SSR will remain a supported feature in Fiber, which is great, but I would love to learn more about what the conflict is.
2. It's really cool that Brian was able to write another renderer against Fiber's renderer API. Is this API documented in any form? I'd love to look at it and think about it if possible, though I totally understand if it isn't documented yet.

[iamdustan]

Re: 2. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/renderers/shared/fiber/ReactFiberReconciler.js#L43-L71

[sophiebits]

1. Currently, Fiber isn't set up to generate HTML or to revive it. There isn't any conceptual incompatibility with doing either, but it's something we need to figure out before an open source release because many people use SSR heavily. One option would be to use a separate server-side renderer like you were working on.

2. No documentation for renderers yet but you can read through what Brian wrote here: https://github.com/reactjs/react-art/blob/c6f7a5c2972c09682911eac6752c946a60315415/src/ReactARTFiber.js#L389-L504. I can't promise that we'll find time to write docs anytime soon but I'm happy to clarify what any method does if it's confusing.

[aickin]

Thanks so much for the (absurdly!) quick responses and pointers to more information.

Also thanks @spicyj for the offer to clarify what the methods do! Sorry to be so nuts and bolts, but what's the best forum for that?

[sophiebits]

There's probably a better forum, but want to just Messenger me? https://m.me/spicyj

[iamdustan]

I started #react-internals on Reactiflux for this kinda purpose if either of you want to join me and a few others that hang out in there. https://discordapp.com/channels/102860784329052160/148818842779385856

Hopefully having a few additional folks may see the conversation would help to disseminate the knowledge.

[gaearon]

@iamdustan I’ll be there! 👍

[sophiebits]

If I'm being honest, I probably won't actually be responsive on Discord. I created an open Messenger room though: https://m.me/g/Abas8IcWxIvjVxHN. Hope that's not too inconvenient for interested parties.