In order to support running "compiler-cli" tests that use the "test_support.ts"
utilities on Windows with Bazel, we need to imporve the logic that resolves NPM
packages and symlinks them into a temporary directory.
A more Bazel idiomatic and windows compatible way of resolving Bazel runfiles
is to use the "RUNFILES_MANIFEST" if present. This ensures that the NPM
packages can be also symlinked on Windows, and tests can execute properly
on Windows. Read more about why this is needed here:
* https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3726#issue-257062364
PR Close#28352
Since we recently removed the `test.sh` script, and now run
all tests with Bazel, we can remove the unused logic that makes
compiler-cli tests pass in non-Bazel.
This cleans up the tests, and also makes it easier to write tests
without worrying about two ways of the Angular package output
(Bazel `ng_package` rules vs. old `build.sh` logic of building)
PR Close#28352
Since non-flat module formats (esm2015, esm5) have different structure
than their flat counterparts (and since we are operating on JS files
inside `node_modules/`, we need to configure TS to include deeply nested
JS files (by specifying a sufficiently high `maxNodeModuleJsDepth`).
Remains to be determined if this has any (noticeable) performance
implications.
PR Close#25406
Paul Gschwendtner
Pete Bacon Darwin
George Kalpakas