This brings us one step closer to outputting serverless functions as renderToHTML now renders the passed components, which allows us to bundle the renderToHTML function together with statically imported components in webpack.
As I detailed in [this thread on Spectrum](https://spectrum.chat/?t=3df7b1fb-7331-4ca4-af35-d9a8b1cacb2c), the dev experience would be a lot nicer if the server started listening as soon as possible, before the slow initialization steps. That way, instead of manually polling the dev URL until the server's up (this can take a long time!), I can open it right away and the responses will be delivered when the dev server is done initializing.
This makes a few changes to the dev server:
* Move `HotReloader` creation to `prepare`. Ideally, more things (from the non-dev `Server`) would be moved to a later point as well, because creating `next({ ... })` is quite slow.
* In `run`, wait for a promise to resolve before doing anything. This promise automatically gets resolved whenever `prepare` finishes successfully.
And the `next dev` and `next start` scripts:
* Since we want to log that the server is ready/listening before the intensive build process kicks off, we return the app instance from `startServer` and the scripts call `app.prepare()`.
This should all be backwards compatible, including with all existing custom server recommendations that essentially say `app.prepare().then(listen)`. But now, we could make an even better recommendation: start listening right away, then call `app.prepare()` in the `listen` callback. Users would be free to make that change and get better DX.
Try it and I doubt you'll want to go back to the old way. :)
Fixes#4495
Here's my approach for replacing the XHR on-demand-entries pinger #1364#4495. I'm not sure if this is the way everyone wants to accomplish this since I saw mention of using a separate server and port for the dynamic entries websocket, but thought this would be a fairly clean solution since it doesn't need that.
With this method the only change when using a custom server is you have to listen for the upgrade event and pass it to next.getRequestHandler(). Example:
```
const server = app.listen(port)
const handleRequest = next.getRequestHandler()
if(dev) {
server.on('upgrade', handleRequest)
}
```
* Convert render.js to typescript
* Compile tsx files too
* Remove internal renderErrorToHTML function
* Interopt component result
* requirePage doesn’t need async
* Move out enhancing logic into it’s own function
* Remove buildManifest from renderPage
* Move render into it’s own function
* Change let to const
* Move renderDocument into it’s own function
- Replaces taskr-babel with taskr-typescript for the `next` package
- Makes sure Node 8+ is used, no unneeded transpilation
- Compile Next.js client side files through babel the same way pages are
- Compile Next.js client side files to esmodules, not commonjs, so that tree shaking works.
- Move error-debug.js out of next-server as it's only used/require in development
- Drop ansi-html as dependency from next-server
- Make next/link esmodule (for tree-shaking)
- Make next/router esmodule (for tree-shaking)
- add typescript compilation to next-server
- Remove last remains of Flow
- Move hoist-non-react-statics to next, out of next-server
- Move htmlescape to next, out of next-server
- Remove runtime-corejs2 from next-server
