In some scenarios it is useful for the developer to indicate
to ngcc that it should not use the entry-point manifest
file, and instead write a new one.
In the ngcc command line tool, this option is set by specfying
```
--invalidate-entry-point-manifest
```
PR Close#35931
Currently, when running the ngcc binary directly and provide an invalid option ngcc will not error out and the user might have a hard time telling why ngcc is behaving not as expected.
With this change we now output an actionable error:
```
yarn ngcc --unknown-option
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
-s, --source A path (relative to the working directory)
of the `node_modules` folder to process.
[default: "./node_modules"]
-p, --properties An array of names of properties in
package.json to compile (e.g. `module` or
`es2015`)
Each of these properties should hold the
path to a bundle-format.
If provided, only the specified properties
are considered for processing.
If not provided, all the supported format
properties (e.g. fesm2015, fesm5, es2015,
esm2015, esm5, main, module) in the
package.json are considered. [array]
-t, --target A relative path (from the `source` path) to
a single entry-point to process (plus its
dependencies).
--first-only If specified then only the first matching
package.json property will be compiled.
[boolean]
--create-ivy-entry-points If specified then new `*_ivy_ngcc`
entry-points will be added to package.json
rather than modifying the ones in-place.
For this to work you need to have custom
resolution set up (e.g. in webpack) to look
for these new entry-points.
The Angular CLI does this already, so it is
safe to use this option if the project is
being built via the CLI. [boolean]
--legacy-message-ids Render `$localize` messages with legacy
format ids.
The default value is `true`. Only set this
to `false` if you do not want legacy
message ids to
be rendered. For example, if you are not
using legacy message ids in your
translation files
AND are not doing compile-time inlining of
translations, in which case the extra
message ids
would add unwanted size to the final source
bundle.
It is safe to leave this set to true if you
are doing compile-time inlining because the
extra
legacy message ids will all be stripped
during translation.
[boolean] [default: true]
--async Whether to compile asynchronously. This is
enabled by default as it allows
compilations to be parallelized.
Disabling asynchronous compilation may be
useful for debugging.
[boolean] [default: true]
-l, --loglevel The lowest severity logging message that
should be output.
[choices: "debug", "info", "warn", "error"]
--invalidate-entry-point-manifest If this is set then ngcc will not read an
entry-point manifest file from disk.
Instead it will walking the directory tree
as normal looking for entry-points, and
then write a new manifest file.
[boolean] [default: false]
--help Show help [boolean]
Unknown arguments: unknown-option, unknownOption
```
PR Close#36010
By ensuring that legacy i18n message ids are rendered into the templates
of components for packages processed by ngcc, we ensure that these packages
can be used in an application that may provide translations in a legacy
format.
Fixes#34056
PR Close#34135
This allows disabling parallelism in ngcc if desired, which is mainly useful
for debugging. The implementation creates the flag and passes its value to
mainNgcc.
No tests are added since the feature mainly exists already - ngcc supports
both parallel and serial execution. This commit only allows switching the
flag via the commandline.
PR Close#33192
This gives an overview of how much time is spent in each operation/phase
and makes it easy to do rough comparisons of how different
configurations or changes affect performance.
PR Close#32427
Previously, `ngcc`'s programmatic API would run and complete
synchronously. This was necessary for specific usecases (such as how the
`@angular/cli` invokes `ngcc` as part of the TypeScript module
resolution process), but not for others (e.g. running `ivy-ngcc` as a
`postinstall` script).
This commit adds a new option (`async`) that enables turning on
asynchronous execution. I.e. it signals that the caller is OK with the
function call to complete asynchronously, which allows `ngcc` to
potentially run in a more efficient mode.
Currently, there is no difference in the way tasks are executed in sync
vs async mode, but this change sets the ground for adding new execution
options (that require asynchronous operation), such as processing tasks
in parallel on multiple processes.
NOTE:
When using the programmatic API, the default value for `async` is
`false`, thus retaining backwards compatibility.
When running `ngcc` from the command line (i.e. via the `ivy-ngcc`
script), it runs in async mode (to be able to take advantage of future
optimizations), but that is transparent to the caller.
PR Close#32427
When profiling ngcc it is notable that a large amount of time
is spent dealing with an exception that is thrown (and handled
internally by fs) when checking the existence of a file.
We check file existence a lot in both finding entry-points
and when TS is compiling code. This commit adds a simple
cached `FileSystem`, which wraps a real `FileSystem` delegate.
This will reduce the number of calls through to `fs.exists()` and
`fs.readFile()` on the delegate.
Initial benchmarks indicate that the cache is miss to hit ratio
for `exists()` is about 2:1, which means that we save about 1/3
of the calls to `fs.existsSync()`.
Note that this implements a "non-expiring" cache, so it is not suitable
for a long lived `FileSystem`, where files may be modified externally.
The cache will be updated if a file is changed or moved via
calls to `FileSystem` methods but it will not be aware of changes
to the files system from outside the `FileSystem` service.
For ngcc we must create a new `FileSystem` service
for each run of `mainNgcc` and ensure that all file operations
(including TS compilation) use the `FileSystem` service.
This ensures that it is very unlikely that a file will change
externally during `mainNgcc` processing.
PR Close#30525
To improve cross platform support, all file access (and path manipulation)
is now done through a well known interface (`FileSystem`).
For testing a number of `MockFileSystem` implementations are provided.
These provide an in-memory file-system which emulates operating systems
like OS/X, Unix and Windows.
The current file system is always available via the static method,
`FileSystem.getFileSystem()`. This is also used by a number of static
methods on `AbsoluteFsPath` and `PathSegment`, to avoid having to pass
`FileSystem` objects around all the time. The result of this is that one
must be careful to ensure that the file-system has been initialized before
using any of these static methods. To prevent this happening accidentally
the current file system always starts out as an instance of `InvalidFileSystem`,
which will throw an error if any of its methods are called.
You can set the current file-system by calling `FileSystem.setFileSystem()`.
During testing you can call the helper function `initMockFileSystem(os)`
which takes a string name of the OS to emulate, and will also monkey-patch
aspects of the TypeScript library to ensure that TS is also using the
current file-system.
Finally there is the `NgtscCompilerHost` to be used for any TypeScript
compilation, which uses a given file-system.
All tests that interact with the file-system should be tested against each
of the mock file-systems. A series of helpers have been provided to support
such tests:
* `runInEachFileSystem()` - wrap your tests in this helper to run all the
wrapped tests in each of the mock file-systems.
* `addTestFilesToFileSystem()` - use this to add files and their contents
to the mock file system for testing.
* `loadTestFilesFromDisk()` - use this to load a mirror image of files on
disk into the in-memory mock file-system.
* `loadFakeCore()` - use this to load a fake version of `@angular/core`
into the mock file-system.
All ngcc and ngtsc source and tests now use this virtual file-system setup.
PR Close#30921
Now the public API does not contain internal types, such as `AbsoluteFsPath` and
`EntryPointJsonProperty`. Instead we just accept strings and then guard them in
`mainNgcc` as appropriate.
A new public API function (`hasBeenProcessed`) has been exported to allow programmatic
checking of the build marker when the package.json contents are already known.
PR Close#29092
By default ngcc will compile all the format properties specified. With this
change you can configure ngcc so that it will stop compiling an entry-point
after the first property that matches the `propertiesToConsider`.
PR Close#29092
Now that we are using package.json properties to indicate which
entry-point format to compile, it turns out that we don't really
need to distinguish between flat and non-flat formats, unless we
are compiling `@angular/core`.
PR Close#29092
You can now specify a list of properties in the package.json that
should be considered (in order) to find the path to the format to compile.
The build marker system has been updated to store the markers in
the package.json rather than an additional external file.
Also instead of tracking the underlying bundle format that was compiled,
it now tracks the package.json property.
BREAKING CHANGE:
The `proertiesToConsider` option replaces the previous `formats` option,
which specified the final bundle format, rather than the property in the
package.json.
If you were using this option to compile only specific bundle formats,
you must now modify your usage to pass in the properties in the package.json
that map to the format that you wish to compile.
In the CLI, the `--formats` is no longer available. Instead use the
`--properties` option.
FW-1120
PR Close#29092
The `mainNgcc()` function has been refactored to make it easier to call
ngcc from JavaScript, rather than via the command line.
For example, the `yargs` argument parsing and the exception
handling/logging have moved to the `main-ngcc.ts`
file so that it is only used for the command line version.
FW-1118
PR Close#29092
Pete Bacon Darwin
Alan Agius
Alex Rickabaugh
George Kalpakas