Kudzu 0.7.14 - Intrinsic forwardRef

Kudzu 0.7.14 preserves conventional direct forwardRef() component authoring while erasing the wrapper into build-time intrinsic output.

New in 0.7.14

• forwardRef may be imported directly or with an alias from react, or called as a direct default/namespace React member.
• One top-level const component may wrap one inline synchronous (props, ref) render function.
• The compiler removes ref from ordinary props and rest bindings before supplying it as the render function second parameter.
• The forwarded object ref must appear exactly once on the direct intrinsic root and reuses Kudzu deterministic ref marker.
• Components remain valid when the optional ref prop is omitted; null and undefined intrinsic refs emit no marker.
• Same-file and relative-imported components compile without React, a wrapper function, hydration, or a browser component runtime.
• Indirect callbacks, async/generator renders, callback or composed refs, fragments, component roots, nested targets, repeated forwarding, and memo(forwardRef(...)) fail with source diagnostics.

Boundary

This release intentionally supports one direct object-ref boundary. It does not add React ref objects, imperative handles, generic ref composition, or browser component instances. Existing keyed-row ownership checks still require refs used inside keyed lists to originate from that row.

Upgrade

npm install @kudzujs/core@^0.7.14

The matching project generator is create-kudzu@0.1.69.