This was meant to be a temporary hack to unblock the `act` work, but it
quickly spread throughout our tests.
What it's meant to do is force fallbacks to flush inside `act` even in
Concurrent Mode. It does this by wrapping the `setTimeout` call in a
check to see if it's in an `act` context. If so, it skips the delay and
immediately commits the fallback.
Really this is only meant for our internal React tests that need to
incrementally render. Nobody outside our team (and Relay) needs to do
that, yet. Even if/when we do support that, it may or may not be with
the same `flushAndYield` pattern we use internally.
However, even for our internal purposes, the behavior isn't right
because a really common reason we flush work incrementally is to make
assertions on the "suspended" state, before the fallback has committed.
There's no way to do that from inside `act` with the behavior of this
flag, because it causes the fallback to immediately commit. This has led
us to *not* use `act` in a lot of our tests, or to write code that
doesn't match what would actually happen in a real environment.
What we really want is for the fallbacks to be flushed at the *end` of
the `act` scope. Not within it.
This only affects the noop and test renderer versions of `act`, which
are implemented inside the reconciler. Whereas `ReactTestUtils.act` is
implemented in "userspace" for backwards compatibility. This is fine
because we didn't have any DOM Suspense tests that relied on this flag;
they all use test renderer or noop.
In the future, we'll probably want to move always use the reconciler
implementation of `act`. It will not affect the prod bundle, because we
currently only plan to support `act` in dev. Though we still haven't
completely figured that out. However, regardless of whether we support a
production `act` for users, we'll still need to write internal React
tests in production mode. For that use case, we'll likely add our own
internal version of `act` that assumes a mock Scheduler and might rely
on hacks that don't 100% align up with the public one.