Social Previews | Add Threads preview

[manzoorwanijk]

Proposed Changes

• Add Threads preview to social-previews package
• Add Threads preview to post share preview

Why are these changes being made?

• We are adding Threads support to Jetpack Social and we want to display post preview for Threads.

Testing Instructions

• Sandbox D152810-code and follow the instructions given there
• Point public-api.wordpress.com to your sandbox
• Goto /posts/:site
• For any post that you want to check preview for, click on options (3 dots)
• Click on Share and then click on Preview
• Confirm that you see the Threads tab
• Select Threads tab
• Confirm that the preview works as expected in different scenarios
• Please also test this in combination with Social: Add Threads to social previews jetpack#38003

Pre-merge Checklist

• Has the general commit checklist been followed? (PCYsg-hS-p2)
• Have you written new tests for your changes?
• Have you tested the feature in Simple (P9HQHe-k8-p2), Atomic (P9HQHe-jW-p2), and self-hosted Jetpack sites (PCYsg-g6b-p2)?
• Have you checked for TypeScript, React or other console errors?
• Have you used memoizing on expensive computations? More info in Memoizing with create-selector and Using memoizing selectors and Our Approach to Data
• Have we added the "[Status] String Freeze" label as soon as any new strings were ready for translation (p4TIVU-5Jq-p2)?
• For changes affecting Jetpack: Have we added the "[Status] Needs Privacy Updates" label if this pull request changes what data or activity we track or use (p4TIVU-aUh-p2)?

When there is NO Threads connection but an image

When there is NO Threads connection and No image

When there IS a Threads connection but and also an image

When there IS a Threads connection but NO image

When custom media is added to the post with "Share as social post" enabled

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[matticbot]

Here is how your PR affects size of JS and CSS bundles shipped to the user's browser:

App Entrypoints (~4 bytes added 📈 [gzipped])

name           parsed_size           gzip_size
entry-stepper        +42 B  (+0.0%)       +4 B  (+0.0%)
entry-main           +42 B  (+0.0%)       +4 B  (+0.0%)

Common code that is always downloaded and parsed every time the app is loaded, no matter which route is used.

Sections (~4170 bytes added 📈 [gzipped])

name                  parsed_size           gzip_size
posts-custom             +11720 B  (+1.6%)    +4170 B  (+1.9%)
posts                    +11720 B  (+1.6%)    +4170 B  (+1.8%)
write-flow                 +205 B  (+0.0%)      +66 B  (+0.0%)
videopress-flow            +205 B  (+0.0%)      +66 B  (+0.0%)
link-in-bio-tld-flow       +205 B  (+0.0%)      +66 B  (+0.0%)
build-flow                 +205 B  (+0.0%)      +66 B  (+0.0%)

Sections contain code specific for a given set of routes. Is downloaded and parsed only when a particular route is navigated to.

Async-loaded Components (~4183 bytes added 📈 [gzipped])

name                                                 parsed_size           gzip_size
async-load-design-blocks                                +11720 B  (+0.5%)    +4170 B  (+0.7%)
async-load-calypso-components-web-preview-component       +205 B  (+0.0%)      +66 B  (+0.0%)
async-load-design-playground                               +44 B  (+0.0%)      +13 B  (+0.0%)
async-load-design                                          +44 B  (+0.0%)      +13 B  (+0.0%)

React components that are loaded lazily, when a certain part of UI is displayed for the first time.

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What is parsed and gzip size?

Parsed Size: Uncompressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much code needs to be parsed and stored in memory.
Gzip Size: Compressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much data needs to be downloaded over network.

Generated by performance advisor bot at iscalypsofastyet.com.

[matticbot]

This PR modifies the release build for the following Calypso Apps:

For info about this notification, see here: PCYsg-OT6-p2

• editing-toolkit
• happy-blocks
• wpcom-block-editor

To test WordPress.com changes, run install-plugin.sh $pluginSlug add/social-previews/threads-preview on your sandbox.

[gmjuhasz]

Nice job this works well!

[a8ci18n]

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