In Angular today, the following pattern works:
```typescript
export class BaseDir {
constructor(@Inject(ViewContainerRef) protected vcr: ViewContainerRef) {}
}
@Directive({
selector: '[child]',
})
export class ChildDir extends BaseDir {
// constructor inherited from BaseDir
}
```
A decorated child class can inherit a constructor from an undecorated base
class, so long as the base class has metadata of its own (for JIT mode).
This pattern works regardless of metadata in AOT.
In Angular Ivy, this pattern does not work: without the @Directive
annotation identifying the base class as a directive, information about its
constructor parameters will not be captured by the Ivy compiler. This is a
result of Ivy's locality principle, which is the basis behind a number of
compilation optimizations.
As a solution, @Directive() without a selector will be interpreted as a
"directive base class" annotation. Such a directive cannot be declared in an
NgModule, but can be inherited from. To implement this, a few changes are
made to the ngc compiler:
* the error for a selector-less directive is now generated when an NgModule
declaring it is processed, not when the directive itself is processed.
* selector-less directives are not tracked along with other directives in
the compiler, preventing other errors (like their absence in an NgModule)
from being generated from them.
PR Close#31379
PR #29473 changed the docs to use a string as the input value of `formControlName`, as it used to only accept a string.
This has been changed, and `formControlName` now accepts a string or a number, so the example in the docs can use a binding as they used to.
PR Close#30606
This commit relaxes the type of the `formControlName` input to accept both a `string` and a `number`.
Currently, when using a `FormArray`, most templates look like:
```
<div formArrayName="tags">
<div *ngFor="let tag of tagsArray.controls; index as i">
<input [formControlName]="i">
</div>
</div>
```
Here `formControlName` receives a number whereas its input type is a string.
This is fine for VE and `fullTemplateTypeCheck`, but not for Ivy which does a more thorough type checking on inputs with `fullTemplateTypeCheck` enabled and throws `Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'string'`. It is fixable by using `formControlName="{{i}}"` but you have to know the difference between `a="{{b}}"` and `[a]="b"` and change it all over the application codebase. This commit allows the existing code to still type-check.
PR Close#30606
Examples for testing are designed specifically to run in StackBlitz and
are not regular cli projects (e.g. their `main.ts` files may load and run
tests instead of bootstrapping an app). They are not intended to be
downloaded and built/run locally using the cli.
In order to avoid confusing users, this commit removes the download links
from the guide. If desired, the projects can still be exported locally
via StackBlitz's UI.
Related to #31020 and #31937.
PR Close#31949
Now that the Angular LS is a proper tsserver plugin, it does not make
sense for it to maintain its own language service API.
This is part one of the effort to remove our custom LanguageService
interface.
This interface is cumbersome because we have to do two transformations:
ng def -> ts def -> lsp definition
The TS LS interface is more comprehensive, so this allows the Angular LS
to return more information.
PR Close#31972
Publishing of NGCC packages should not be allowed. It is easy for a user to publish an NGCC'd version of a library they have workspace libraries which are being used in a workspace application.
If a users builds a library and afterwards the application, the library will be transformed with NGCC and since NGCC taints the distributed files that should be published.
With this change we use the npm/yarn `prepublishOnly` hook to display and error and abort the process with a non zero error code when a user tries to publish an NGCC version of the package.
More info: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts
PR Close#32031
Previously, when run with `createNewEntryPointFormats: true`, `ngcc`
would only update `package.json` with the new entry-point for the first
format property that mapped to a format-path. Subsequent properties
mapping to the same format-path would be detected as processed and not
have their new entry-point format recorded in `package.json`.
This commit fixes this by ensuring `package.json` is updated for all
matching format properties, when writing an `EntryPointBundle`.
PR Close#32052
Remove the `formatProperty` property from the `EntryPointBundle`
interface, because the property is not directly related to that type.
It was only used in one place, when calling `fileWriter.writeBundle()`,
but we can pass `formatProperty` directrly to `writeBundle()`.
PR Close#32052
This refactoring more clearly separates the different phases of the work
performed by `ngcc`, setting the ground for being able to run each phase
independently in the future and improve performance via parallelization.
Inspired by/Based on @alxhub's prototype: alxhub/angular@cb631bdb1
PR Close#32052
This change basically moves some checks to happen up front and ensures
we don't try to process any more properties than we absolutely need.
(The properties would not be processed before either, but we would
consider them, before finding out that they have already been processed
or that they do not exist in the entry-point's `package.json`.)
This change should make no difference in the work done by `ngcc`, but it
transforms the code in a way that makes the actual work known earlier,
thus making it easier to parallelize the processing of each property in
the future.
PR Close#32052
In commit 7b55ba58b (part of PR #29092), the implementation of
`makeEntryPointBundle()` was changed such that it now always return
`EntryPointBundle` (and not `null`).
However, the return type was not updated and as result we continued to
unnecessarily handle `null` as a potential return value in some places.
This commit fixes the return type to reflect the implementation and
removes the redundant code that was dealing with `null`.
PR Close#32052
ngcc analyzes the dependency structure of the entrypoints it needs to
process, as the compilation of entrypoints is ordering sensitive: any
dependent upon entrypoint must be compiled before its dependees. As part
of the analysis of the dependency graph, it is detected when a
dependency of entrypoint is not installed, in which case that entrypoint
will be marked as ignored.
For libraries that work with Angular Universal to run in NodeJS, imports
into builtin NodeJS modules can be present. ngcc's dependency analyzer
can only resolve imports within the TypeScript compilation, which
builtin modules are not part of. Therefore, such imports would
erroneously cause the entrypoint to become ignored.
This commit fixes the problem by taking the NodeJS builtins into account
when dealing with missing imports.
Fixes#31522
PR Close#31872
ngcc analyzes the dependency structure of the entrypoints it needs to
process, as the compilation of entrypoints is ordering sensitive: any
dependent upon entrypoint must be compiled before its dependees. As part
of the analysis of the dependency graph, it is detected when a
dependency of entrypoint is not installed, in which case that entrypoint
will be marked as ignored.
When a target entrypoint to compile is provided, it could occur that
given target is considered ignored because one of its dependencies might
be missing. This situation was not dealt with currently, instead
resulting in a crash of ngcc.
This commit prevents the crash by taking the above scenario into account.
PR Close#31872
The `setup-local` npm script uses `NgPackagesInstaller` to replace the
Angular packages with the locally built ones. Previously, it would (a)
assume that the packages were built and (b) it would do anything if the
currently installed versions already correspond to locally built
packages (even if not the latest version).
This could lead to all sorts of errors, such as:
- Confusing error messages, `dist/packages-dist/` was missing.
- Using outdated build artifacts from `dist/packages-dist/` without a
warning.
- Not installing the latest locally built packages, because the ones
installed already corresponded to locally built (but older) ones.
This commit fixes these issues by ensuring that:
- The local packages are always built before being used by
`NgPackagesInstaller`.
- The local packages are installed, even if the ones install already
correspond to local packages.
NOTE: Special `*-ci` scripts are introduced (for use on CI) that skip
building the local packages, since that step would have been taken
care of (in a more efficient way) in a previous CI step.
PR Close#31985
Previously, when `NgPackagesInstaller` needed to install the local
Angular packages to a project, it assumed the `dist/packages-dist/`
would exist and contain up-to-date built packages. I.e. it was up to the
user to have built the packages first (by running the appropriate
script).
However, many people not familiar with the `aio/` infrastructure assumed
that `yarn build-local` or `yarn build-with-ivy` would take care of all
the necessary steps.
To avoid getting confusing errors (or worse yet, using outdated local
packages), `NgPackagesInstaller` now has an option to build the packages
before using them.
One caveat is that the build script does not currently work on Windows,
so a warning is printed instead, letting the user know they need to
(somehow) take care of it themselves.
NOTE 1: Since the build script is using bazel, running it should not be
expensive if the directory is up-to-date (i.e. no changes have
been made to source code after the last build).
NOTE 2: This commit adds support for `--build-packages`, but does not
change the default behavior (not building the packages). It will
be turned on in a subsequent commit.
PR Close#31985
Previously, `ngcc` would avoid processing a `formatPath` that a property
in `package.json` mapped to, if either the _property_ was marked as
processed or the `formatPath` (i.e. the file(s)) was processed in the
same `ngcc` run (since the `compiledFormats` set was not persisted
across runs).
This could lead in a situation where a `formatPath` would be compiled
twice (if for example properties `a` and `b` both mapped to the same
`formatPath` and one would run `ngcc` for property `a` and then `b`).
This commit fixes it by ensuring that as soon as a `formatPath` has been
processed all corresponding properties are marked as processed (which
persists across `ngcc` runs).
PR Close#32003
Previously, when `ngcc` was called with `compileAllFormats === false`
(i.e. how `@angular/cli` calls it), it would not attempt to process
more properties, once the first was successfully processed. However, it
_would_ continue looping over them and perform some unnecessary
operations, such as:
- Determining the format each property maps to (which can be an
expensive operation for some properties mapping to either UMD or
CommonJS).
- Checking whether each property has been processed (which involves
checking whether any property has been processed with a different
version of `ngcc` each time).
- Potentially marking properties as processed (which involves a
file-write operation).
This commit avoids the unnecessary operations by entirely skipping
subsequent properties, once the first one has been successfully
processed. While this theoretically improves performance, it is not
expected to have any noticeable impact in practice, since the list of
`propertiesToConsider` is typically small and the most expensive
operation (marking a property as processed) has low likelihood of
happening (plus these operations are a tiny fraction of `ngcc`'s work).
PR Close#32003
Previously, when `ngcc` needed to mark multiple properties as processed
(e.g. a processed format property and `typings` or all supported
properties for a non-Angular entry-point), it would update each one
separately and write the file to disk multiple times.
This commit changes this, so that multiple properties can be updated at
once with one file-write operation. While this theoretically improves
performance (reducing the I/O operations), it is not expected to have
any noticeable impact in practice, since these operations are a tiny
fraction of `ngcc`'s work.
This change will be useful for a subsequent change to mark all
properties that map to the same `formatPath` as processed, once it is
processed the first time.
PR Close#32003
- Change margin to the header so that the the label aligns with the header
- Make code in API pages pre-wrap so that you can see the actual text on the screen - helps with issue #27296
- Modified text to be title case in label API to be consistent with rest of app labels
- Removed unused table of contents SCSS file
- TOC SCSS file reorg cleanup
- Soften headers font-weight in API pages
- Make linenums ordered list inside code examples always show as numbers
PR Close#31013
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