ngtsc needs to reflect over code to property compile it. It performs operations
such as enumerating decorators on a type, reading metadata from constructor
parameters, etc.
Depending on the format (ES5, ES6, etc) of the underlying code, the AST
structures over which this reflection takes place can be very different. For
example, in TS/ES6 code `class` declarations are `ts.ClassDeclaration` nodes,
but in ES5 code they've been downleveled to `ts.VariableDeclaration` nodes that
are initialized to IIFEs that build up the classes being defined.
The ReflectionHost abstraction allows ngtsc to perform these operations without
directly querying the AST. Different implementations of ReflectionHost allow
support for different code formats.
PR Close#24541
This change supports compilation of components, directives, and modules
within ngtsc. Support is not complete, but is enough to compile and test
//packages/core/test/bundling/todo in full AOT mode. Code size benefits
are not yet achieved as //packages/core itself does not get compiled, and
some decorators (e.g. @Input) are not stripped, leading to unwanted code
being retained by the tree-shaker. This will be improved in future commits.
PR Close#24427
This adds ngtsc/util/src/visitor, a utility for visiting TS ASTs that
can add synthetic nodes immediately prior to certain types of nodes (e.g.
class declarations). It's useful to lift definitions that need to be
referenced repeatedly in generated code outside of the class that defines
them.
PR Close#24230
Bazel has a restriction that a single output (eg. a compiled version of
//packages/common) can only be produced by a single rule. This precludes
the Angular repo from having multiple rules that build the same code. And
the complexity of having a single rule produce multiple outputs (eg. an
ngc-compiled version of //packages/common and an Ivy-enabled version) is
too high.
Additionally, the Angular repo has lots of existing tests which could be
executed as-is under Ivy. Such testing is very valuable, and it would be
nice to share not only the code, but the dependency graph / build config
as well.
Thus, this change introduces a --define flag 'compile' with three potential
values. When --define=compile=X is set, the entire build system runs in a
particular mode - the behavior of all existing targets is controlled by
the flag. This allows us to reuse our entire build structure for testing
in a variety of different manners. The flag has three possible settings:
* legacy (the default): the traditional View Engine (ngc) build
* local: runs the prototype ngtsc compiler, which does not rely on global
analysis
* jit: runs ngtsc in a mode which executes tsickle, but excludes the
Angular related transforms, which approximates the behavior of plain
tsc. This allows the main packages such as common to be tested with
the JIT compiler.
Additionally, the ivy_ng_module() rule still exists and runs ngc in a mode
where Ivy-compiled output is produced from global analysis information, as
a stopgap while ngtsc is being developed.
PR Close#24056
This commit adds a mechanism by which the @angular/core annotations
for @Component, @Injectable, and @NgModule become decorators which,
when executed at runtime, trigger just-in-time compilation of their
associated types. The activation of these decorators is configured
by the ivy_switch mechanism, ensuring that the Ivy JIT engine does
not get included in Angular bundles unless specifically requested.
PR Close#23833
Previously, the compileComponent() and compileDirective() APIs still required
the output of global analysis, even though they only read local information
from that output.
With this refactor, compileComponent() and compileDirective() now define
their inputs explicitly, with the new interfaces R3ComponentMetadata and
R3DirectiveMetadata. compileComponentGlobal() and compileDirectiveGlobal()
are introduced and convert from global analysis output into the new metadata
format.
This refactor also splits out the view compiler into separate files as
r3_view_compiler_local.ts was getting unwieldy.
Finally, this refactor also splits out generation of DI factory functions
into a separate r3_factory utility as the logic is utilized between different
compilers.
PR Close#23545
g3 and the Angular repo have different versions of TypeScript, and
ts.updateIdentifier() has a different signature in the different versions.
There is no way to write a call to the function that will compile in both
versions simultaneously.
Instead, use ts.getMutableClone() as that has the same effect of cloning
the identifier.
PR Close#23550
This commit adds a new compiler pipeline that isn't dependent on global
analysis, referred to as 'ngtsc'. This new compiler is accessed by
running ngc with "enableIvy" set to "ngtsc". It reuses the same initialization
logic but creates a new implementation of Program which does not perform the
global-level analysis that AngularCompilerProgram does. It will be the
foundation for the production Ivy compiler.
PR Close#23455
rxjs 6.0.0 breaks strictMetadataEmit as they now publish a .d.ts file with a
structure like:
declare export class Subscription {
static EMPTY: Subscription;
}
This generates metadata which contains an error, and fails the strictMetadataEmit
validation. There is nothing a library author can do in this situation except to
set strictMetadataEmit to false.
The spirit of strictMetadataEmit is to validate that the author's library doesn't
do anything that will break downstream users. This failure is a corner case which
causes more harm than good, so this commit disables validation for metadata
collected from .d.ts files.
Fixes#22210
PR Close#23275
Lowering expressions in flat module metadata is desirable, but it won't
work without some rearchitecting. Currently the flat module index source
is added to the Program and therefore must be determined before the rest
of the transforms run. Since the lowering transform changes the set of
exports needed in the index, this creates a catch-22 in the index
generation.
This commit causes the flat module index metadata to be generated using
only those transforms which are "safe" (don't modify the index).
PR Close#23226
Currently, the flat module index metadata is produced directly from
the source metadata. The compiler, however, applies transformations
on the Typescript sources during transpilation, and also equivalent
transformations on the metadata itself. This transformed metadata
doesn't end up in the flat module index.
This changes the compiler to generate the flat module index metadata
from its transformed version instead of directly from source.
PR Close#23129
Computing the value of loadChildren does not work externally, as the CLI
needs to be able to detect the paths referenced to properly set up
codesplitting. However, internally, different approaches to codesplitting
require hashed module IDs, and the computation of those hashes involves
something like:
{path: '...', loadChildren: hashFn('module')}
ngc should lower loadChildren into an exported constant in that case.
This will never break externally, because loadChildren is always a
string externally, and a string won't get lowered.
PR Close#23088
This allows a bundle index to be re-exported by a higher-level module without fear of collisions.
Under bazel, we always set the prefix to be underscore-joined workspace, package, label
PR Close#23007
ngc knows to filter out d.ts inputs, but the logic accidentally
depended on whether it had a previous Program lying around.
Fixing that logic puts ngc on the fast code path, but in that code
path it must be able to merge tsickle EmitResults, so we need to
plumb the tsickle.mergeEmitResults function through all the intervening
APIs. The bulk of this change is that plumbing.
PR Close#22899
This adds compilation of @NgModule providers and imports into
ngInjectorDef statements in generated code. All @NgModule annotations
will be compiled and the @NgModule decorators removed from the
resultant js output.
All @Injectables will also be compiled in Ivy mode, and the decorator
removed.
PR Close#22458
BREAKING CHANGE:
The `<template>` tag was deprecated in Angular v4 to avoid collisions (i.e. when
using Web Components).
This commit removes support for `<template>`. `<ng-template>` should be used
instead.
BEFORE:
<!-- html template -->
<template>some template content</template>
# tsconfig.json
{
# ...
"angularCompilerOptions": {
# ...
# This option is no more supported and will have no effect
"enableLegacyTemplate": [true|false]
}
}
AFTER:
<!-- html template -->
<ng-template>some template content</ng-template>
PR Close#22783
Works around an issue with TypeScript 2.6 and 2.7 that causes
the tranformer emit to emit incorrect escapes for css string
literals.
Fixes: #22774
PR Close#22776
Closure has a transformation which turns:
Service.ngInjectableDef = ...;
into:
Service$ngInjectableDef = ...;
This transformation obviously breaks Ivy in a major way. The solution is
to annotate the fields as @nocollapse. However, Typescript appears to ignore
synthetic comments added to a node during a transformation, so the "right"
way to add these comments doesn't work.
As an interim measure, a post-processing step just before the compiled JS is
written to disk appends the correct comments with a regular expression.
PR Close#22691
Previously the flag would only disable the check in the case we tried to use newer tsc version.
In g3 we sometimes take a while to update tsc, but as a prerequisite of that Angular needs to be
updated first. This change enables us to update Angular and use it in g3 while g3 is being update
to the required tsc. Of course extra care is required when this check is disabled, but since we
control everything in g3, it's on us to get this right.
I don't see any preexisting tests for this, and I'm not sure how to write them right now.
I filed https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/22699
PR Close#22669
When the compiler generates a reference to an exported variable in the
same file, it inserts a synthetic ts.Identifier node. In CommonJS
output, this synthetic node would not be properly rewritten with an
`exports.` prefix.
This change sets the TS original node property on the synthetic node
we generate, which ensures TS knows to rewrite it in CommonJS output.
PR Close#22564
When angularCompilerOptions { enableResourceInlining: true }, we replace all templateUrl and styleUrls properties in @Component with template/styles
PR Close#22615
InjectionToken can be created with an ngInjectableDef, and previously
this allowed the full expressiveness of @Injectable. However, this
requires a runtime reflection system in order to generate factories
from expressed provider declarations.
Instead, this change requires scoped InjectionTokens to provide the
factory directly (likely using inject() for the arguments), bypassing
the need for a reflection system.
Fixes#22205
PR Close#22207
This commit bundles 3 important changes, with the goal of enabling tree-shaking
of services which are never injected. Ordinarily, this tree-shaking is prevented
by the existence of a hard dependency on the service by the module in which it
is declared.
Firstly, @Injectable() is modified to accept a 'scope' parameter, which points
to an @NgModule(). This reverses the dependency edge, permitting the module to
not depend on the service which it "provides".
Secondly, the runtime is modified to understand the new relationship created
above. When a module receives a request to inject a token, and cannot find that
token in its list of providers, it will then look at the token for a special
ngInjectableDef field which indicates which module the token is scoped to. If
that module happens to be in the injector, it will behave as if the token
itself was in the injector to begin with.
Thirdly, the compiler is modified to read the @Injectable() metadata and to
generate the special ngInjectableDef field as part of TS compilation, using the
PartialModules system.
Additionally, this commit adds several unit and integration tests of various
flavors to test this change.
PR Close#22005
Folding errors passed calls prevented the static reflector from
begin able to ignore errors in annotations it doesn't know as
the call to the unknown annotation was elided from the metadata.
Fixes: #21273
PR Close#21708
The "enableIvy" compiler option is the initial implementation
of the Render3 (or Ivy) code generation. This commit enables
generation generating "Hello, World" (example in the test)
but not much else. It is currenly only useful for internal Ivy
testing as Ivy is in development.
PR Close#21427