组件化

vue可以使用组件化来开发，在前边介绍_createElement方法时，在对原生的tag时直接创建vnode，在对已经注册的组件调用createComponent方法我们一起来看一下这个方法
获取之前已经挂载到context上的Vue的构造器，初始化传入的组件像初始化根vue一样，然后安装component的hook。最后生成vnode并返回

function createComponent (
  Ctor: Class<Component> | Function | Object | void,
  data: ?VNodeData,
  context: Component,
  children: ?Array<VNode>,
  tag?: string
): VNode | Array<VNode> | void {
  if (isUndef(Ctor)) {
    return
  }

  const baseCtor = context.$options._base // 获取Vue的根对象构造器

  // plain options object: turn it into a constructor
  if (isObject(Ctor)) {
    Ctor = baseCtor.extend(Ctor) // 用Vue._init来初始化，并原型继承baseCtor
  }

  // if at this stage it's not a constructor or an async component factory,
  // reject.
  if (typeof Ctor !== 'function') {
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
      warn(`Invalid Component definition: ${String(Ctor)}`, context)
    }
    return
  }

  // async component
  let asyncFactory
  if (isUndef(Ctor.cid)) {
    asyncFactory = Ctor
    Ctor = resolveAsyncComponent(asyncFactory, baseCtor)
    if (Ctor === undefined) {
      // return a placeholder node for async component, which is rendered
      // as a comment node but preserves all the raw information for the node.
      // the information will be used for async server-rendering and hydration.
      return createAsyncPlaceholder(
        asyncFactory,
        data,
        context,
        children,
        tag
      )
    }
  }

  data = data || {}

  // resolve constructor options in case global mixins are applied after
  // component constructor creation
  resolveConstructorOptions(Ctor)

  // transform component v-model data into props & events
  if (isDef(data.model)) {
    transformModel(Ctor.options, data)
  }

  // extract props
  const propsData = extractPropsFromVNodeData(data, Ctor, tag)

  // functional component
  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.functional)) {
    return createFunctionalComponent(Ctor, propsData, data, context, children)
  }

  // extract listeners, since these needs to be treated as
  // child component listeners instead of DOM listeners
  const listeners = data.on
  // replace with listeners with .native modifier
  // so it gets processed during parent component patch.
  data.on = data.nativeOn

  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.abstract)) {
    // abstract components do not keep anything
    // other than props & listeners & slot

    // work around flow
    const slot = data.slot
    data = {}
    if (slot) {
      data.slot = slot
    }
  }

  // install component management hooks onto the placeholder node
  installComponentHooks(data) // 将component的hook与已有的hook合并

  // return a placeholder vnode
  const name = Ctor.options.name || tag
  const vnode = new VNode(
    `vue-component-${Ctor.cid}${name ? `-${name}` : ''}`,
    data, undefined, undefined, undefined, context,
    { Ctor, propsData, listeners, tag, children },
    asyncFactory
  )

  // Weex specific: invoke recycle-list optimized @render function for
  // extracting cell-slot template.
  // https://github.com/Hanks10100/weex-native-directive/tree/master/component
  /* istanbul ignore if */
  if (__WEEX__ && isRecyclableComponent(vnode)) {
    return renderRecyclableComponentTemplate(vnode)
  }

  return vnode
}

patch

我们通过patch方法来生成最终的dom元素，我们之前看了原生标签的过程，现在来看一看compoment的过程，createElm会先尝试创建component，来看一下
我们首先执行init hook的方法就是之前installCompoentsHook中合并的hook，先来看一下init hook 不走keepAlive会执行createComponentInstanceForVnode
最终会执行vnode.componentOptions.Ctor(),实际上就是实力化创建组件时的Sub构造函数，又会执行一套_init,render流程，最终会在insert方法中插入标签

function createComponent (vnode, insertedVnodeQueue, parentElm, refElm) {
  let i = vnode.data
  if (isDef(i)) {
    const isReactivated = isDef(vnode.componentInstance) && i.keepAlive
    if (isDef(i = i.hook) && isDef(i = i.init)) {
      i(vnode, false /* hydrating */) // 执行init hook
    }
    // after calling the init hook, if the vnode is a child component
    // it should've created a child instance and mounted it. the child
    // component also has set the placeholder vnode's elm.
    // in that case we can just return the element and be done.
    if (isDef(vnode.componentInstance)) {
      initComponent(vnode, insertedVnodeQueue)
      insert(parentElm, vnode.elm, refElm)
      if (isTrue(isReactivated)) {
        reactivateComponent(vnode, insertedVnodeQueue, parentElm, refElm)
      }
      return true
    }
  }
}
init (vnode: VNodeWithData, hydrating: boolean): ?boolean {
  if (
    vnode.componentInstance &&
    !vnode.componentInstance._isDestroyed &&
    vnode.data.keepAlive
  ) {
    // kept-alive components, treat as a patch
    const mountedNode: any = vnode // work around flow
    componentVNodeHooks.prepatch(mountedNode, mountedNode)
  } else {
    const child = vnode.componentInstance = createComponentInstanceForVnode(
      vnode,
      activeInstance
    )
    child.$mount(hydrating ? vnode.elm : undefined, hydrating)
  }
},
function createComponentInstanceForVnode (
  vnode: any, // we know it's MountedComponentVNode but flow doesn't
  parent: any, // activeInstance in lifecycle state
): Component {
  const options: InternalComponentOptions = {
    _isComponent: true,
    _parentVnode: vnode,
    parent
  }
  // check inline-template render functions
  const inlineTemplate = vnode.data.inlineTemplate
  if (isDef(inlineTemplate)) {
    options.render = inlineTemplate.render
    options.staticRenderFns = inlineTemplate.staticRenderFns
  }
  return new vnode.componentOptions.Ctor(options)
}