Warn about rendering Generators

Author: gaearon

packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactMultiChild-test.js

@@ -294,6 +294,27 @@ describe('ReactMultiChild', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('should warn for using generators as children', () => {
+    function* Foo() {
+      yield <h1 key="1">Hello</h1>;
+      yield <h1 key="2">World</h1>;
+    }
+
+    const div = document.createElement('div');
+    expect(() => {
+      ReactDOM.render(<Foo />, div);
+    }).toWarnDev(
+      'Using Generators as children is unsupported and will likely yield ' +
+        'unexpected results because enumerating a generator mutates it. You may ' +
+        'convert it to an array with `Array.from()` or the `[...spread]` operator ' +
+        'before rendering. Keep in mind you might need to polyfill these features for older browsers.\n' +
+        '    in Foo (at **)',
+    );
+
+    // Test de-duplication
+    ReactDOM.render(<Foo />, div);
+  });
+
   it('should reorder bailed-out children', () => {
     class LetterInner extends React.Component {
       render() {

packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactChildFiber.js

@@ -46,13 +46,15 @@ import {
 import {StrictMode} from './ReactTypeOfMode';
 
 let didWarnAboutMaps;
+let didWarnAboutGenerators;
 let didWarnAboutStringRefInStrictMode;
 let ownerHasKeyUseWarning;
 let ownerHasFunctionTypeWarning;
 let warnForMissingKey = (child: mixed) => {};
 
 if (__DEV__) {
   didWarnAboutMaps = false;
+  didWarnAboutGenerators = false;
   didWarnAboutStringRefInStrictMode = {};
 
   /**
@@ -903,6 +905,22 @@ function ChildReconciler(shouldTrackSideEffects) {
     );
 
     if (__DEV__) {
+      // We don't support rendering Generators because it's a mutation.
+      // See https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/12995
+      if (
+        typeof Symbol === 'function' &&
+        newChildrenIterable[Symbol.toStringTag] === 'Generator'
+      ) {
+        warning(
+          didWarnAboutGenerators,
+          'Using Generators as children is unsupported and will likely yield ' +
+            'unexpected results because enumerating a generator mutates it. ' +
+            'You may convert it to an array with `Array.from()` or the `[...spread]` operator before rendering. Keep in mind ' +
+            'you might need to polyfill these features for older browsers.',
+        );
+        didWarnAboutGenerators = true;
+      }
+
       // Warn about using Maps as children
       if ((newChildrenIterable: any).entries === iteratorFn) {
         warning(