## Summary
V8 prefixes async call sites with `async ` when it prints a stack, like
this:
```
Error: boom
at inner (/tmp/asy.js:1:44)
at async outerName (/tmp/asy.js:2:30)
```
`parseStackTraceFromChromeStack` captures `async outerName` as the frame
name and strips the prefix here:
```js
} else if (name.startsWith('async ')) {
name = name.slice(5);
isAsync = true;
}
```
`'async '` is six characters, so `slice(5)` leaves the space behind and
the frame name comes back as `' outerName'` rather than `'outerName'`.
I noticed it while reading the parser, and it is not purely cosmetic:
that name is the first element of the `ReactFunctionLocation` returned
by `extractLocationFromComponentStack` and
`extractLocationFromOwnerStack`, which `backend/fiber/renderer.js`
stores as `instance.source`. Any async component whose frame reaches
that path is recorded under a name with a stray leading space.
The same line exists in
`packages/react-server/src/ReactFlightStackConfigV8.js`, which the
DevTools file is a copy of. After review I fixed it in this PR as well,
in a second commit. There it only matters on the fallback path that
parses an already formatted stack string, when the error's `stack` was
read or assigned before React reaches it. #37130 is open on that file
too, but it does not touch these lines.
## How did you test this change?
I first confirmed the format V8 actually emits, rather than assuming it:
```
$ node -e 'async function inner(){await null;throw new Error("boom")}
async function outerName(){await inner()}
outerName().catch(e=>console.log(e.stack))'
Error: boom
at inner ([eval]:1:52)
at async outerName ([eval]:2:33)
```
Then I added a case to the existing `extractLocationFromComponentStack`
block in `utils-test.js`. Against `main` it fails with exactly the
leading space:
```
● utils › extractLocationFromComponentStack › should strip the async prefix from a frame name
- Expected - 1
+ Received + 1
Array [
- "Comments",
+ " Comments",
"https://react.dev/_next/static/chunks/848-122f91e9565d9ffa.js",
5,
9236,
]
```
With the one-character fix applied:
```
$ yarn test --build --project=devtools -r=experimental utils-test
PASS packages/react-devtools-shared/src/__tests__/utils-test.js
Tests: 63 passed, 63 total
```
I also ran the whole DevTools project before and after to check I was
not moving anything else. Both runs end at `9 failed, 4 failed suites`,
the same test names each time (`componentStacks`, `console`,
`inspectedElement`, `legacy/inspectElement`), so those failures are
pre-existing on `main` in my environment and unrelated to this change.
The only difference between the two runs is my new test: 586 passed
before, 587 after.
For the Flight side I added `ReactFlightStackConfigV8-test.js`, which
assigns a formatted stack to an error and checks what `parseStackTrace`
returns. Against `main` it fails with the same leading space (`"
outerName"`); with the fix it passes on stable and experimental in
development. It is gated to `__DEV__` because that fallback goes through
the DEV-only stack cache. `ReactFlightServer-test` and
`ReactFlightAsyncDebugInfo-test` still pass next to it (23 tests).
`prettier` and `eslint` are clean on all changed files. `yarn flow
dom-node` reported no errors for the DevTools commit; I did not rerun
Flow after the one-character Flight change.
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