autolink scans non used components

[mfazekas]

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Description

react-native 0.75-rc.4 uses npx @react-native-community/cli config to get components needed to autolink. Hovewer it just scans for all the folders for all source files, so it can find false positives. And it's hard to understand/troubleshoot what's going on.

I've faced it when I've moved a non finished spec out of the folders I've specified , yet autolink was still referred to it. I thought that there was some cached state that caused the component to be searched for.

In the reproducer the cli will find and adds https://github.com/mfazekas/rn-075-autolink/blob/autolink-wrong-files/RTNCenteredText/temp/Playgroud.ts to autolink.

Reproducible Demo

git clone https://github.com/mfazekas/rn-075-autolink
cd rn-075-autolink
git checkout autolink-wrong-files
cd ReproducerApp
yarn install
cd android 
./gradlew assembleDebug

  /tmp/rn-075-autolink/ReproducerApp/android/app/build/generated/autolinking/src/main/jni/autolinking.cpp:31:59: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SomeDrafrComponentComponentDescriptor'
  providerRegistry->add(concreteComponentDescriptorProvider<SomeDrafrComponentComponentDescriptor>());

[mfazekas]

As for fix, either the cli would need to invoke the codegen, or at lease use the same rules as codegen.

1. read codegenConfig/jsSrcsDir from package.json
2. only consider files with pattern /^(Native.+|.+NativeComponent)/ - see https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/65a3259f039416394d2b945ec10565d38b3cad9e/packages/react-native-codegen/src/cli/combine/combine-utils.js#L29-L43 and https://github.com/reactwg/react-native-new-architecture/blob/main/docs/fabric-native-components.md#2-javascript-specification and https://github.com/reactwg/react-native-new-architecture/blob/main/docs/turbo-modules.md#2-javascript-specification

https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/d6982fc9a56812b0deff42cabcab09528f72fdca/packages/cli-platform-android/src/config/findComponentDescriptors.ts#L7-L23

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/65a3259f039416394d2b945ec10565d38b3cad9e/packages/react-native/scripts/codegen/generate-artifacts-executor.js#L392-L416