Summary: flipper-server-companion depends on flipper-plugin. flipper-plugin includes dependencies that run only in a browser. Splitting flipper-plugin into core and browser packages helps to avoid including browser-only dependencies into flipper-server bundle. As a result, bundle size could be cut in half. Subsequently, RSS usage drops as there is twice as less code to process for V8. Note: it currently breaks external flipper-data-source package. It will be restored in subsequent diffs Reviewed By: lblasa Differential Revision: D38658285 fbshipit-source-id: 751b11fa9f3a2d938ce166687b8310ba8b059dee
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