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Summary:
## Rationale
**Disclaimer**: This is an incremental step towards more maintainable/readable react-native-codegen generators. In the future, we may want to replace these templates/string concat logic with *something better*. But until we decide what that *something better* is, let's at least get rid of all this gross string find/replace.
Benefits of using Function templates over String.prototype.replace.
- **Self-documenting**: Template Functions enumerate/describe their exact data dependencies in their signature. You no longer have to read the template implementation to see what data you need to pass into the template.
- **Improved Readability**: JavaScript syntax highlighting makes it really easy to see where/how the data is inserted into the templates. Also template variables used be prefixed/suffixed with ::, which made things really confusing in C++ code (e.g: wtf is `::_CLASSNAME_::EventEmitter::::_EVENT_NAME_::`?).
- **Simpler Interpolation**: Don't have to worry about .replaceAll vs .replace, or calling these replace functions with regexes or strings.
- **Template Type-safety**: Ensure that the correct data types are passed to the component templates (e.g: flow will complain if you accidentally pass null/undefined when a template expects a string).
- **Template Type-safety**: Ensure that we don't pass in extra data to templates (this diff catches/fixes instances of this error). Ensure that we don't forget to pass in data to the template.
- etc.
After this diff, both our Component and NativeModule generators will be using template functions. This string find/replace exists no more in react-native-codegen.
This is also a very surface-level change. I made no efforts to simplify these templates. Let's take a look at that later, as necessary.
Changelog: [Internal]
Reviewed By: yungsters
Differential Revision: D32021441
fbshipit-source-id: f8f27069bcbf9d66dcafb7d1411da1f938eb6dcd
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