ngtsc generates type constructors which infer the type of a directive based
on its inputs. Previously, a bug existed where this inference would fail in
the case of 'any' input values. For example, the inference of NgForOf fails
when an 'any' is provided, as it causes TypeScript to attempt to solve:
T[] = any
In this case, T gets inferred as {}, the empty object type, which is not
desirable.
The fix is to assign generic types in type constructors a default type of
'any', which TypeScript uses instead of {} when inference fails.
PR Close#30094
ngtsc previously could attempt to reuse the main ts.Program twice. This
occurred when template type-checking was enabled and then an incremental
build was performed. This breaks a TypeScript invariant - ts.Programs can
only be reused once.
The creation of the template type-checking program reuses the main program,
rendering it moot. Then, on the next incremental build the main program
would be subject to reuse again, which would crash inside TypeScript.
This commit fixes the issue by reusing the template type-checking program
from the previous run on the next incremental build. Since under normal
circumstances the files in the type-checking program aren't changed, this
should be just as fast.
Testing strategy: a test is added in the incremental_spec which validates
that program reuse with type-checking turned on does not crash the compiler.
Fixes#30079
PR Close#30090
Fixes view and content queries not being inherited in Ivy, if the base class hasn't been annotated with an Angular decorator (e.g. `Component` or `Directive`).
Also reworks the way the `ngBaseDef` is created so that it is added at the same point as the queries, rather than inside of the `Input` and `Output` decorators.
This PR partially resolves FW-1275. Support for host bindings will be added in a follow-up, because this PR is somewhat large as it is.
PR Close#30015
Prior to this commit, the check that verifies correct "id" field type was too strict and didn't allow `module.id` as @NgModule's "id" field value. This change adds a special handling for `module.id` and uses it as id of @NgModule if specified.
PR Close#30040
The compiler uses metadata to represent what it statically knows about
various expressions in a program. Occasionally, expressions in the program
for which metadata is extracted may contain sub-expressions which are not
representable in metadata. One such construct is an arrow function.
The compiler does not always need to understand such expressions completely.
For example, for a provider defined with `useValue`, the compiler does not
need to understand the value at all, only the outer provider definition. In
this case, the compiler employs a technique known as "expression lowering",
where it rewrites the provider expression into one that can be represented
in metadata. Chiefly, this involves extracting out the dynamic part (the
`useValue` expression) into an exported constant.
Lowering is applied through a heuristic, which considers the containing
statement as well as the field name of the expression.
Previously, this heuristic was not completely accurate in the case of
route definitions and the `loadChildren` field, which is lowered. If the
route definition using `loadChildren` existed inside a decorator invocation,
lowering was performed correctly. However, if it existed inside a standalone
variable declaration with an export keyword, the heuristic would conclude
that lowering was unnecessary. For ordinary providers this is true; however
the compiler attempts to fully understand the ROUTES token and thus even if
an array of routes is declared in an exported variable, any `loadChildren`
expressions within still need to be lowered.
This commit enables lowering of already exported variables under a limited
set of conditions (where the initializer expression is of a specific form).
This should enable the use of `loadChildren` in route definitions.
PR Close#30038
Previously, a template's context name would only be included in an embedded
template function if the element that the template was declared on has a
tag name. This is generally true for elements, except for `ng-content`
that does not have a tag name. By omitting the context name the compiler
could introduce duplicate template function names, which would fail at runtime.
This commit fixes the behavior by always including the context name in the
template function's name, regardless of tag name.
Resolves FW-1272
PR Close#30025
Fixes Ivy throwing an error because it tries to generate styling instructions for empty `style` and `class` bindings.
This PR resolves FW-1274.
PR Close#30024
Template type-checking is enabled by default in the View Engine compiler.
The feature in Ivy is not quite ready for this yet, so this flag will
temporarily control whether templates are type-checked in ngtsc.
The goal is to remove this flag after rolling out template type-checking in
google3 in Ivy mode, and making sure the feature is as compatible with the
View Engine implementation as possible.
Initially, the default value of the flag will leave checking disabled.
PR Close#29698
This commit adds support for template type-checking a pipe binding which
previously was not handled by the type-checking engine. In compatibility
mode, the arguments to transform() are not checked and the type returned
by a pipe is 'any'. In full type-checking mode, the transform() method's
type signature is used to check the pipe usage and infer the return type
of the pipe.
Testing strategy: TCB tests included.
PR Close#29698
The template type-checking engine previously would assemble a type-checking
program by inserting Type Check Blocks (TCBs) into existing user files. This
approach proved expensive, as TypeScript has to re-parse and re-type-check
those files when processing the type-checking program.
Instead, a far more performant approach is to augment the program with a
single type-checking file, into which all TCBs are generated. Additionally,
type constructors are also inlined into this file.
This is not always possible - both TCBs and type constructors can sometimes
require inlining into user code, particularly if bound generic type
parameters are present, so the approach taken is actually a hybrid. These
operations are inlined if necessary, but are otherwise generated in a single
file.
It is critically important that the original program also include an empty
version of the type-checking file, otherwise the shape of the two programs
will be different and TypeScript will throw away all the old program
information. This leads to a painfully slow type checking pass, on the same
order as the original program creation. A shim to generate this file in the
original program is therefore added.
Testing strategy: this commit is largely a refactor with no externally
observable behavioral differences, and thus no tests are needed.
PR Close#29698
Previously the template type-checking code only considered the metadata of
directive classes actually referenced in the template. If those directives
had base classes, any inputs/outputs/etc of the base classes were not
tracked when generating the TCB. This resulted in bindings to those inputs
being incorrectly attributed to the host component or element.
This commit uses the new metadata package to follow directive inheritance
chains and use the full metadata for a directive for TCB generation.
Testing strategy: Template type-checking tests included.
PR Close#29698
This commit adds registration of AOT compiled NgModules that have 'id'
properties set in their metadata. Such modules have a call to
registerNgModuleType() emitted as part of compilation.
The JIT behavior of this code is already in place.
This is required for module loading systems (such as g3) which rely on
getModuleFactory().
PR Close#29980
Previously, ngtsc would fail to resolve `forwardRef` calls if they
contained additional parenthesis or casts. This commit changes the
behavior to first unwrap the AST nodes to see past such insignificant
nodes, resolving the issue.
Fixes#29639
PR Close#29886
Prior to this change, element attributes annotated with i18n- prefix were removed from element attribute list and processed separately by i18n-specific logic. This behavior is causing issues with directive matching, since attributes are not present in the list of attrs for matching purposes. This commit updates i18n logic to retain attributes in the main attribute list, thus allowing directive matching logic to work correctly.
PR Close#29856
The `Δ` caused issue with other infrastructure, and we are temporarily
changing it to `ɵɵ`.
This commit also patches ts_api_guardian_test and AIO to understand `ɵɵ`.
PR Close#29850
So far using runtime i18n with ivy meant that you needed to use Closure and `goog.getMsg` (or a polyfill). This PR changes the compiler to output both closure & non-closure code, while the unused option will be tree-shaken by minifiers.
This means that if you use the Angular CLI with ivy and load a translations file, you can use i18n and the application will not throw at runtime.
For now it will not translate your application, but at least you can try ivy without having to remove all of your i18n code and configuration.
PR Close#28689
Currently in Ivy we pass both the raw and parsed selectors to the projectionDef instruction, because the parsed selectors are used to match most nodes, whereas the raw ones are used to match against nodes with the ngProjectAs attribute. The raw selectors add a fair bit of code that won't be used in most cases, because ngProjectAs is somewhat rare.
These changes rework the compiler not to output the raw selectors in the projectionDef, but to parse the selector in ngProjectAs and to store it on the TAttributes. The logic for matching has also been changed so that it matches the pre-parsed ngProjectAs selector against the list of projection selectors.
PR Close#29578
The defineInjector function specifies its providers and imports array to
be optional, so if no providers/imports are present these keys may be
omitted. This commit updates the compiler to only generate the keys when
necessary.
PR Close#29598
Prior to this change, a module's imports and exports would be used verbatim
as an injectors' imports. This is detrimental for tree-shaking, as a
module's exports could reference declarations that would then prevent such
declarations from being eligible for tree-shaking.
Since an injector actually only needs NgModule references as its imports,
we may safely filter out any declarations from the list of module exports.
This makes them eligible for tree-shaking once again.
PR Close#29598
Prior to this change, all module metadata would be included in the
`defineNgModule` call that is set as the `ngModuleDef` field of module
types. Part of the metadata is scope information like declarations,
imports and exports that is used for computing the transitive module
scope in JIT environments, preventing those references from being
tree-shaken for production builds.
This change moves the metadata for scope computations to a pure function
call that patches the scope references onto the module type. Because the
function is marked pure, it may be tree-shaken out during production builds
such that references to declarations and exports are dropped, which in turn
allows for tree-shaken any declaration that is not otherwise referenced.
Fixes#28077, FW-1035
PR Close#29598
Currently there is no support in ngtsc for imports of the form:
```
import * as core from `@angular/core`
export function forRoot(): core.ModuleWithProviders;
```
This commit modifies the `ReflectionHost.getImportOfIdentifier(id)`
method, so that it supports this kind of return type.
PR Close#27675
This commit introduces a mechanism for incremental compilation to the ngtsc
compiler.
Previously, incremental information was used in the construction of the
ts.Program for subsequent compilations, but was not used in ngtsc itself.
This commit adds an IncrementalState class, which tracks state between ngtsc
compilations. Currently, this supports skipping the TypeScript emit step
when the compiler can prove the contents of emit have not changed.
This is implemented for @Injectables as well as for files which don't
contain any Angular decorated types. These are the only files which can be
proven to be safe today.
See ngtsc/incremental/README.md for more details.
PR Close#29380
This commit adds support for compiling the same program repeatedly in a way
that's similar to how incremental builds work in a tool such as the CLI.
* support is added to the compiler entrypoint for reuse of the Program
object between compilations. This is the basis of the compiler's
incremental compilation model.
* support is added to wrap the CompilerHost the compiler creates and cache
ts.SourceFiles in between compilations.
* support is added to track when files are emitted, for assertion purposes.
* an 'exclude' section is added to the base tsconfig to prevent .d.ts
outputs from the first compilation from becoming inputs to any subsequent
compilations.
PR Close#29380
Currently, ngtsc decides to use remote scoping if the compilation of a
component may create a cyclic import. This happens if there are two
components in a scope (say, A and B) and A directly uses B. During
compilation of B ngtsc will then note that if B were to use A, a cycle would
be generated, and so it will opt to use remote scoping for B.
ngtsc already uses the R3TargetBinder to correctly track the imports that
are actually required, for future cycle tracking. This commit expands that
usage to not trigger remote scoping unless B actually does consume A in its
template.
PR Close#29404
Currently when building an Angular project with `ngtsc`
and `flatModuleOutFile` enabled, the Ngtsc build will fail
if there are multiple source files as root file names.
Ngtsc and NGC currently determine the entry-point for multiple
root file names by looking for files ending with `/index.ts`.
This functionality is technically deprecated, but still supported
and currently breaks on Windows as the root file names are not
guaranteed to be normalized POSIX-like paths.
In order to make this logic more reliable in the future, this commit
also switches the shim generators and entry-point logic to the branded
path types. This ensures that we don't break this in the future.
PR Close#29453
Previously, only directives and services with generic type parameters
would emit `any` as generic type when emitting Ivy metadata into .d.ts
files. Pipes can also have generic type parameters but did not emit
`any` for all type parameters, resulting in the omission of those
parameters which causes compilation errors.
This commit adds support for pipes with generic type arguments and emits
`any` as generic type in the Ivy metadata.
Fixes#29400
PR Close#29403
This patch is the first of a few patches which separates the
styling logic between template bindings (e.g. <div [style])
from host bindings (e.g. @HostBinding('style')). This patch
in particular introduces a series of host-specific styling
instructions and changes the existing set of template styling
instructions not to accept directives. The underyling code (which
communicates with the styling algorithm) still works as it did
before.
This PR also separates the styling instruction code into a separate
file and moves over all other instructions into an dedicated
instructions directory.
PR Close#29292
This fix is for a bug in the ngtsc PartialEvaluator, which statically
evaluates expressions.
Sometimes, evaluating a reference requires resolving a function which is
declared in another module, and thus no function body is available. To
support this case, the PartialEvaluator has the concept of a foreign
function resolver.
This allows the interpretation of expressions like:
const router = RouterModule.forRoot([]);
even though the definition of the 'forRoot' function has no body. In
ngtsc today, this will be resolved to a Reference to RouterModule itself,
via the ModuleWithProviders foreign function resolver.
However, the PartialEvaluator also associates any Identifiers in the path
of this resolution with the Reference. This is done so that if the user
writes
const x = imported.y;
'x' can be generated as a local identifier instead of adding an import for
'y'.
This was at the heart of a bug. In the above case with 'router', the
PartialEvaluator added the identifier 'router' to the Reference generated
(through FFR) to RouterModule.
This is not correct. References that result from FFR expressions may not
have the same value at runtime as they do at compile time (indeed, this is
not the case for ModuleWithProviders). The Reference generated via FFR is
"synthetic" in the sense that it's constructed based on a useful
interpretation of the code, not an accurate representation of the runtime
value. Therefore, it may not be legal to refer to the Reference via the
'router' identifier.
This commit adds the ability to mark such a Reference as 'synthetic', which
allows the PartialEvaluator to not add the 'router' identifier down the
line. Tests are included for both the PartialEvaluator itself as well as the
resultant buggy behavior in ngtsc overall.
PR Close#29387
Currently if an Angular library has multiple unnamed module re-exports, NGC will
generate incorrect metdata if the project is using the flat-module bundle option.
e.g.
_public-api.ts_
```ts
export * from '@mypkg/secondary1';
export * from '@mypkg/secondary2';
```
There are clearly two unnamed re-exports in the `public-api.ts` file. NGC right now
accidentally overwrites all previous re-exports with the last one. Resulting in the
generated metadata only containing a reference to `@mypkg/secondary2`.
This is problematic as it is common for primary library entry-points to have
multiple re-exports (e.g. Material re-exporting all public symbols; or flex-layout
exporting all public symbols from their secondary entry-points).
Currently Angular Material works around this issue by manually creating
a metadata file that declares the re-exports from all unnamed re-exports.
(see: https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/tools/package-tools/build-release.ts#L78-L85)
This workaround works fine currently, but is no longer easily integrated when
building the package output with Bazel. In order to be able to build such
libraries with Bazel (Material/flex-layout), we need to make sure that NGC
generates the proper flat-module metadata bundle.
PR Close#29360
Previously, ngtsc would resolve forward references while evaluating the
bootstrap, declaration, imports, and exports fields of NgModule types.
However, when generating the resulting ngModuleDef, the forward nature of
these references was not taken into consideration, and so the generated JS
code would incorrectly reference types not yet declared.
This commit fixes this issue by introducing function closures in the
NgModuleDef type, similarly to how NgComponentDef uses them for forward
declarations of its directives and pipes arrays. ngtsc will then generate
closures when required, and the runtime will unwrap them if present.
PR Close#29198
This fixes an issue with commit b6f6b117. In this commit, default imports
processed in a type-to-value conversion were recorded as non-local imports
with a '*' name, and the ImportManager generated a new default import for
them. When transpiled to ES2015 modules, this resulted in the following
correct code:
import i3 from './module';
// somewhere in the file, a value reference of i3:
{type: i3}
However, when the AST with this synthetic import and reference was
transpiled to non-ES2015 modules (for example, to commonjs) an issue
appeared:
var module_1 = require('./module');
{type: i3}
TypeScript renames the imported identifier from i3 to module_1, but doesn't
substitute later references to i3. This is because the import and reference
are both synthetic, and never went through the TypeScript AST step of
"binding" which associates the reference to its import. This association is
important during emit when the identifiers might change.
Synthetic (transformer-added) imports will never be bound properly. The only
possible solution is to reuse the user's original import and the identifier
from it, which will be properly downleveled. The issue with this approach
(which prompted the fix in b6f6b117) is that if the import is only used in a
type position, TypeScript will mark it for deletion in the generated JS,
even though additional non-type usages are added in the transformer. This
again would leave a dangling import.
To work around this, it's necessary for the compiler to keep track of
identifiers that it emits which came from default imports, and tell TS not
to remove those imports during transpilation. A `DefaultImportTracker` class
is implemented to perform this tracking. It implements a
`DefaultImportRecorder` interface, which is used to record two significant
pieces of information:
* when a WrappedNodeExpr is generated which refers to a default imported
value, the ts.Identifier is associated to the ts.ImportDeclaration via
the recorder.
* when that WrappedNodeExpr is later emitted as part of the statement /
expression translators, the fact that the ts.Identifier was used is
also recorded.
Combined, this tracking gives the `DefaultImportTracker` enough information
to implement another TS transformer, which can recognize default imports
which were used in the output of the Ivy transform and can prevent them
from being elided. This is done by creating a new ts.ImportDeclaration for
the imports with the same ts.ImportClause. A test verifies that this works.
PR Close#29266
Prior to this change default selector for Components was not applied in case selector is missing or defined as an empty string. This update aligns this behavior between Ivy and VE: now default selector is used for Components when it's needed. Directives with empty selector are not allowed and trigger a compile-time error in both Ivy and VE.
PR Close#29239
Prior to this change the code didn't take into account the fact that decorators can be aliases while importing into a script. As a result, these decorators were not recognized by Angular and various failures happened because of that. Now we take aliases into account and resolve decorator name properly.
PR Close#29195
Alex Rickabaugh
Kristiyan Kostadinov
Andrew Kushnir
Ben Lesh
JoostK
Olivier Combe
Pete Bacon Darwin
Paul Gschwendtner
Marc Laval
Greg Magolan
Alan Agius
Matias Niemelä
Alex Eagle
Igor Minar