React: Consider using reactjs.org instead of fb.me in react's error/warning messages

[dehghani-mehdi]

Hi,

Facebook is blocked in my country (and I think in some other countries) and links like https://fb.me/react-invalid-hook-call are blocked for me, in order to see the related documentation of the link I have to use VPN. so if is possible please use another link shortener service or point to reactjs.org directly.

Thanks.

[threepointone]

We are considering this seriously. We are not sure when and how we'll do this, but it's on our minds. Thanks for the suggestion!

[bencefr]

One more reason is that current links require fb account! Please make this priority.

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[threepointone]

Not stale, I think we do want to do this sometime.

[threepointone]

@bencefr I don’t think you’re right? Definitely does not require an fb account

[bencefr]

@threepointone , it definitely does, since fb.me/... just redirects to facebook.com main page to sign up.

[dehghani-mehdi]

@bencefr I just tested https://fb.me/react-invalid-hook-call and it redirects me to https://reactjs.org/warnings/invalid-hook-call-warning.html without forcing me to log in into my facebook account.

[bencefr]

My bad, the link I used had a typo and should have been a 404. The redirect works but I would be against using fb.me anyway.

[threepointone]

More data for this, fb.me is blocked inside lots of corporate environments as it's considered "social networking". While I'm working on getting it unblocked in my own firm, I don't expect that to actually happen soon.

[val1984]

McAfee's TrustedSource categorizes fb.me as "Social Networking" which is enough for my company to block it. I tried to make them change this categorization to "Internet Services" (like bit.ly) but so far I haven't been successful, probably because fb.me (or any non-existing shortcut like fb.me/trololololololilol) redirects to facebook.com.
I will try to make it unblocked but I have little hope so having reactjs.org urls in logs would be an improvement.

[tebeco]

I can't agree more with @val1984
This probably would help tons of developper working within company with gateway (McAfee is just one of the many existing ones)
Having a dedicated FQDN like reactjs.org is something that can be trusted
Using fb.me will never be whitelisted for many reason like redirect to facebook / analytics / etc ...

We are considering this seriously. We are not sure when and how we'll do this, but it's on our minds. Thanks for the suggestion!

@threepointone how did it go ?

[cylim]

@threepointone @gaearon
Sorry, my bad for creating the PR directly without asking. I was thinking about better to have working warning than waiting for perfect solution.

Redirect links might redirect to invalid links too, one of the example is fb.me/react-mock-scheduler

I would suggest to create something like _redirects netlify, so that the public contributors can helps to update/monitoring the links whether needed.

[gaearon]

No worries. We appreciate the intent — it’s just unfortunate because that particular change isn’t something we can do.

I think your proposal with _redirect makes sense. Is this something you would be interested in implementing?

[cylim]

@gaearon Yes. I am happy to do it.

I can see that reactjs.org is hosting on Netlify, and it is already _redirects using in reactjs.org website _redirects on reactjs.org.

Any preferred path for the short link?
reactjs.org/{path}/{title}

I can start with link as the path, it can be change easily later on.

[gaearon]

Thanks to @cylim for taking this issue and spending the time to solve it.

https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/3199
https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/19598

This will go out in 17.

[tebeco]

Thx a lot for this @cylim