For the last years the Angular repositories relied on `ts-api-guardian`
for testing the public API signature. This project worked well in
general but its another inconvenience to maintain if we could rely on
Microsoft's `api-extractor` tool.
Especially since with TypeScript 4.3 issues with export aliases appeared
that would require us to extend TS API guardian to support such exports.
This is not as straightforward as it sounds, given it requires rewriting
of declarations to show-case the proper name in the API golden. Microsoft's
API extractor has integrated support for this.
As of TypeScript 4.3, we want to start using the new `override` keyword.
We are not able to use that keyword currently because an old version of
API extractor is used in the `ng_module` rule to flatten the types into
a single file. To fix this, we need to update `api-extractor`, but this
unveils the issue with TS API guardian because the most recent version
of api-extractor uses alias exports to avoid potential conflicts
with globals available through the TypeScript default libraries (e.g.
`dom.d.ts`).
PR Close#42688
The dev-infra package is currently built with Bazel and ts-node.
In Bazel, the shared tsconfig from the `packages/` folder is used.
This means that the code is built in strict mode, but IDEs and
ts-node do not know about the strictness. This is because the tsconfig
is part of the `packages` folder and not accessible from the
dev-infra package. We fix this by adding an IDE and ts-node specific
tsconfig to the dev-infra package.
This helps with spotting compilation failures before building
with Bazel / waiting for CI to check build state.
PR Close#38656
Paul Gschwendtner