`@angular/platform-server` provides the foundation for rendering an
Angular app on the server. In order to achieve that, it uses a
server-side DOM implementation (currently [domino][1]).
For rendering on the server to work as closely as possible to running
the app on the browser, we need to make DOM globals (such as `Element`,
`HTMLElement`, etc.), which are normally provided by the browser,
available as globals on the server as well.
Currently, `@angular/platform-server` achieves this by extending the
`global` object with the DOM implementation provided by `domino`. This
assignment happens in the [setDomTypes()][2] function, which is
[called in a `PLATFORM_INITIALIZER`][3]. While this works in most cases,
there are some scenarios where the DOM globals are needed sooner (i.e.
before initializing the platform). See, for example, #24551 and #39950
for more details on such issues.
This commit provides a way to solve this problem by exposing a
side-effect-ful entry-point (`@angular/platform-server/init`), that
shims the `global` object with DOM globals. People will be able to
import this entry-point in their server-rendered apps before
bootstrapping the app (for example, in their `main.server.ts` file).
(See also [#39950 (comment)][4].)
In a future update, the [`universal` schematics][5] will include such an
import by default in newly generated projects.
[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/domino
[2]: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/0fc8466f1be392917e0c/packages/platform-server/src/domino_adapter.ts#L17-L21
[3]: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/0fc8466f1be392917e0c/packages/platform-server/src/server.ts#L33
[4]: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/39950#issuecomment-747598403
[5]: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/cc51432661eb4ab4b6a3/packages/schematics/angular/universal
PR Close#40559
This commit fixes a bug when `useAbsoluteUrl` is set to true and
`ServerPlatformLocation` infers the base url from the supplied
`url`. User should explicitly set the `baseUrl` when they turn on
`useAbsoluteUrl`.
Breaking change:
If you use `useAbsoluteUrl` to setup `platform-server`, you now need to
also specify `baseUrl`.
We are intentionally making this a breaking change in a minor release,
because if `useAbsoluteUrl` is set to `true` then the behavior of the
application could be unpredictable, resulting in issues that are hard to
discover but could be affecting production environments.
PR Close#39334
In version 10.0.0-next.8, we introduced absolute URL support for
server-based HTTP requests, so long as the fully-resolved URL was
provided in the initial config. However, doing so represents a
breaking change for users who already have their own interceptors
to model this functionality, since our logic executes before all
interceptors fire on a request. See original PR #37071.
Therefore, we introduce a flag to make this change consistent with
v9 behavior, allowing users to opt in to this new behavior. This
commit also fixes two issues with the previous implementation:
1. if the server was initiated with a relative URL, the absolute
URL construction would fail because needed components were empty
2. if the user's absolute URL was on a port, the port would not
be included
PR Close#37539
Moves the public api .d.ts files from tools/public_api_guard to
goldens/public-api.
Additionally, provides a README in the goldens directory and a script
assist in testing the current state of the repo against the goldens as
well as a command for accepting all changes to the goldens in a single
command.
PR Close#35768
George Kalpakas
Keen Yee Liau
Adam
Joey Perrott