`react-dom/server` cannot be resolved with `unstable_enablePackageExports` and condition `browser` about metro

[robhogan]

It specifies a package subpath, which we will resolve against the package, considering "exports" if present.

This doesn't seem right tbh. A package author can't write their main, browser, etc on the assumption that exports will be applied on top, so these will point to real file subpaths (eg ./dist/index.js), and then needing to add those targets (real file paths) to the exports map would defeat the point of the exports abstraction.

[robhogan]

We'll need to check other tools to see how browser/exports are expected to interact - there's no spec for this, but apparently we're taking a matching browser value and looking it up in the exports map, which must be wrong.

A browser field match should probably skip exports in the same way that main does.

[huntie]

There is no spec for this, but we've been building to the expectation that "browser" (or any other user redirection) does redirect fully. It specifies a package subpath, which we will resolve against the package, considering "exports" if present.

https://facebook.github.io/metro/docs/resolution/#resolution-algorithm

Changing this behaviour in Metro (so that a mainFields mapping is a target that bypasses "exports") would be non-trivial (given the wide applications of the redirectModulePath API under the current resolution algorithm).

Ideally, react-dom should be updated so that the ./server.browser.js target is accessible. (OR, we should move forward with removing redirectModulePath in a simplified resolver 😅)

    "exports": {
      "./server.browser": "./server.browser.js",
+     "./server.browser.js": "./server.browser.js"
    },
    "browser": {
      "./server.js": "./server.browser.js"
    },

[robhogan]

There is no spec for this, but we've been building to the expectation that "browser" (or any other user redirection) does redirect fully.

Is there ecosystem precedent for this? In the absence of a spec we ought to align, and the situation with react-dom (a reasonably popular package 😅) does suggest it's Metro that's doing something different.

[huntie]

Hmm, fair point! This problem blocks stable Package Exports.

I'm thinking:

• For "main", "browser", indeed these are pre-"exports" concepts — we should allow any mapped relative target to be resolved using file resolution (change).
• We would still expect other redirectModulePath return values (which may be any type of import specifier — e.g. to another package) to consider "exports" during subsequent resolution (no change).

(⬆️ Within Metro, it's really time to kill off redirectModulePath IMO.)