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Summary:
This diff makes sure sandy plugins are initialized.
Sandy plugins are stored directly in the client for two reasons
1. we want to decouple any plugin state updates from our central redux store, as redux is particularly bad in handling high frequency updates.
2. The lifecycle of a plugin is now bound to the lifecycle of a client. This means that we don't need 'persistedStore' to make sure state is preserved; that is now the default. Switching plugins will no longer reinitialize them (but only run specific hooks, see later diffs).
3. PersistedState will be introduced for sandy plugins as well later, but primarily for import / export / debug reasons.
A significant difference with the current persistent state, is that if a client crashes and reconnects, plugins will loose their state. We can prevent this (again, since state persisting will be reintroduced), but I'm not sure we need that for the specific reconnect scenario. Because
1. we should fix reconnecting clients anyway, and from stats it looks to happen less already
2. reconnects are usually caused by plugins that aggregate a lot of data and get slower over time. Restoring old state also restores those unstabilites.
For the overview bringing back the archi picture of earlier diff:
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Also fixed a bug where enabling background plugins didn't enable them on all devices with that app.
Reviewed By: jknoxville
Differential Revision: D22186276
fbshipit-source-id: 3fd42b577f86920e5280aa8cce1a0bc4d5564ed9
flipper-plugin
flipper-plugin is the dependency used by all modern Flipper plugins (project "Tommy").
For background: https://fb.quip.com/YHOGAnaPqAVJ
flipper-plugin is to be used as dev and peer dependency of all Flipper plugins. It provides:
- (TODO) Standard API's to interact with Flipper, such as the client connection.
- (TODO) Standard components to organize the UI
- (TODO) Testing utilities
API's provided by flipper-plugin are documented at fbflipper.com (TODO).
There should normally be no need to install flipper-plugin as dependency.
Rather, plugins should be scaffolded using npx flipper-pkg init (TODO) as documented here