feat(apiWatch): support passing the number type for deep to control the watch depth

[Alfred-Skyblue]

RFC: vuejs/rfcs#597

fixed #9916

Support passing watch deep option as a number type, indicating the depth to which the object should be monitored. This allows control over the depth of object access in the watch function. In scenarios with large datasets, this can significantly improve performance.

[github-actions]

Size Report

Bundles

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runtime-dom.global.prod.js	95.4 kB (+5.24 kB)	36.4 kB (+1.82 kB)	32.7 kB (+1.6 kB)
vue.global.prod.js	153 kB (+6.21 kB)	56.1 kB (+2.09 kB)	50 kB (+1.94 kB)

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Name	Size	Gzip	Brotli
createApp	53 kB (+3.35 kB)	20.6 kB (+1.11 kB)	18.8 kB (+988 B)
createSSRApp	56.9 kB (+3.73 kB)	22.2 kB (+1.26 kB)	20.2 kB (+1.12 kB)
defineCustomElement	55.3 kB (+3.35 kB)	21.4 kB (+1.15 kB)	19.5 kB (+995 B)
overall	66.5 kB (+3.4 kB)	25.6 kB (+1.13 kB)	23.3 kB (+1.07 kB)

[yyx990803]

Now have some conflicts after #9928

Also, I think it might be more concise to simply allow passing a number to deep, since the presence of depth implies deep: true:

// infinite depth
watch(src, () => {}, { deep: true })

// explicit depth
watch(src, () => {}, { deep: 1 })

[Alfred-Skyblue]

Due to the consideration that users might have previously passed "deep" as a number in their usage, which was mistakenly treated as true in the previous implementation, if we now interpret "deep number" as referring to depth, the earlier practice of passing "deep" as a number would result in inconsistency. Of course, such usage was incorrect in the past. Should we take this into account? If we choose not to consider this, recognizing "deep" as referring to depth would be a more reasonable design approach.

[yyx990803]

That's a good point. I think we can add a warning in a 3.4 patch that checks for deep with number values and warn users that it will be treated as depth in a future version.

[Alfred-Skyblue]

Agreed. It's a good plan.

[wjp980108]

This feature is very useful for me. awesome!

[hubdidub]

I don't want to annoy you guys, but I'm curious, since 3.5 already has some alpha releases.. is there still a chance this goes into 3.5? I'd love to use this feature 😀