The compiler does not currently report errors when there's an `@Input()`
for a `private`, `protected`, or `readonly` directive/component class member.
This change adds an option to enable reporting errors when a template
attempts to bind to one of these restricted input fields.
PR Close#38249
Prior to this change, the template type checker would always use a
type-constructor to instantiate a directive. This type-constructor call
serves two purposes:
1. Infer any generic types for the directive instance from the inputs
that are passed in.
2. Type check the inputs that are passed into the directive's inputs.
The first purpose is only relevant when the directive actually has any
generic types and using a type-constructor for these cases inhibits
a type-check performance penalty, as a type-constructor's signature is
quite complex and needs to be generated for each directive.
This commit refactors the generated type-check blocks to only generate
a type-constructor call for directives that have generic types. Type
checking of inputs is achieved by generating individual statements for
all inputs, using assignments into the directive's fields.
Even if a type-constructor is used for type-inference of generic types
will the input checking also be achieved using the individual assignment
statements. This is done to support the rework of the language service,
which will start to extract symbol information from the type-check
blocks.
As a future optimization, it may be possible to reduce the number of
inputs passed into a type-constructor to only those inputs that
contribute the the type-inference of the generics. As this is not a
necessity at the moment this is left as follow-up work.
Closes#38185
PR Close#38249
"Quote expressions" are expressions that start with an identifier followed by a
comma, allowing arbitrary syntax to follow. These kinds of expressions would
throw a an error in the template type checker, which would make them hard to
track down. As quote expressions are not generally used at all, the error would
typically occur for URLs that would inadvertently occur in a binding:
```html
<a [href]="https://example.com"></a>
```
This commit lets such bindings be inferred as the `any` type.
Fixes#36568
Resolves FW-2051
PR Close#37917
In TypeScript 3.8 support was added for type-only imports, which only brings in
the symbol as a type, not their value. The Angular compiler did not yet take
the type-only keyword into account when representing symbols in type positions
as value expressions. The class metadata that the compiler emits would include
the value expression for its parameter types, generating actual imports as
necessary. For type-only imports this should not be done, as it introduces an
actual import of the module that was originally just a type-only import.
This commit lets the compiler deal with type-only imports specially, preventing
a value expression from being created.
Fixes#37900
PR Close#37912
When we were outputting class members for `setClassMetadata` calls,
we were using the string representation of the member name. This can
lead to us generating invalid code when the name contains dashes and
is quoted (e.g. `@Output() 'has-dashes' = new EventEmitter()`), because
the quotes will be stripped for the string representation.
These changes fix the issue by using the original name AST node that was
used for the declaration and which knows whether it's supposed to be
quoted or not.
Fixes#38311.
PR Close#38387
For attribute bindings that target a directive's input, the template
type checker is able to verify that the type of the input expression is
compatible with the directive's declaration for said input. This
checking adheres to the `strictNullChecks` flag as configured in the
TypeScript compilation, such that errors are reported for expressions
that include `undefined` or `null` in their type if the input's
declaration does not include those types.
There was a bug with this level of type-checking for directives that
also declare coercion members, where binding an expression that includes
the `undefined` type to a directive's input that does not include the
`undefined` type would not be reported as error.
This commit fixes the bug by changing the type-constructor in type-check
code to use an intersection type of regular inputs and coerced inputs,
instead of a union type. The union type would inadvertently allow
`undefined` types to be assigned into the regular inputs, as that would
still satisfy the characteristics of a union type.
As a result of this change, you may start to see build failures if
`strictTemplates` is enabled and `strictInputTypes` is not disabled.
These errors are legitimate and some action is required to achieve a
successful build:
1. Update the templates for which an error is reported and introduce the
non-null assertion operator at the end of the expression. This
removes the `undefined` type from the expression's type, making it
appear as a valid assignment.
2. Disable `strictNullInputTypes` in the compiler options. This will
implicitly add the non-null assertion operators similar to option 1,
but all templates in the compilation are affected.
3. Update the directive's input declaration to include the `undefined`
type, if the directive is not implemented in an external library.
PR Close#38273
Roll forward of #38147.
This allows Closure compiler to tree shake unused constructor calls to `NgModuleFactory`, which is otherwise considered
side-effectful. The Angular compiler generates factory objects which are exported but typically not used, as they are
only needed for compatibility with View Engine. This results in top-level constructor calls, such as:
```typescript
export const FooNgFactory = new NgModuleFactory(Foo);
```
`NgModuleFactory` has a side-effecting constructor, so this statement cannot be tree shaken, even if `FooNgFactory` is
never imported. The `NgModuleFactory` continues to reference its associated `NgModule` and prevents the module and all
its unused dependencies from being tree shaken, making Closure builds significantly larger than necessary.
The fix here is to wrap `NgModuleFactory` constructor with `noSideEffects(() => /* ... */)`, which tricks the Closure
compiler into assuming that the invoked function has no side effects. This allows it to tree-shake unused
`NgModuleFactory()` constructors when they aren't imported. Since the factory can be removed, the module can also be
removed (if nothing else references it), thus tree shaking unused dependencies as expected.
The one notable edge case is for lazy loaded modules. Internally, lazy loading is done as a side effect when the lazy
script is evaluated. For Angular, this side effect is registering the `NgModule`. In Ivy this is done by the
`NgModuleFactory` constructor, so lazy loaded modules **cannot** have their top-level `NgModuleFactory` constructor
call tree shaken. We handle this case by looking for the `id` field on `@NgModule` annotations. All lazy loaded modules
include an `id`. When this `id` is found, the `NgModuleFactory` is generated **without** with `noSideEffects()` call,
so Closure will not tree shake it and the module will lazy-load correctly.
PR Close#38320
This introduces a new `ModuleInfo` interface to represent some of the statically analyzed data from an `NgModule`. This
gets passed into transforms to give them more context around a given `NgModule` in the compilation.
PR Close#38320
The `TscPlugin` interface using a type of `ts.CompilerHost&Partial<UnifiedModulesHost>` for the `host` parameter
of the `wrapHost` method. However, prior to this change, the interface implementing `NgTscPlugin` class used a
type of `ts.CompilerHost&UnifiedModulesHost` for the parameter. This change corrects the inconsistency and
allows `UnifiedModulesHost` members to be optional when using the `NgtscPlugin`.
PR Close#38004
This reverts commit 7f8c2225f2cba3dfcf3ec23e0fe08b7d2e3497e8.
This commit caused test failures internally, which were traced back to the
optimizer removing NgModuleFactory constructor calls when those calls caused
side-effectful registration of NgModules by their ids.
PR Close#38303
This commit disables one TypeChecker test (added as a part of
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/38105) which make assertions about the filename while
running on Windows.
Such assertions are currently suffering from a case sensitivity issue.
PR Close#38294
This allows Closure compiler to tree shake unused constructor calls to `NgModuleFactory`, which is otherwise considered
side-effectful. The Angular compiler generates factory objects which are exported but typically not used, as they are
only needed for compatibility with View Engine. This results in top-level constructor calls, such as:
```typescript
export const FooNgFactory = new NgModuleFactory(Foo);
```
`NgModuleFactory` has a side-effecting constructor, so this statement cannot be tree shaken, even if `FooNgFactory` is
never imported. The `NgModuleFactory` continues to reference its associated `NgModule` and prevents the module and all
its unused dependencies from being tree shaken. This effectively prevents all components from being tree shaken, making
Closure builds significantly larger than they should be.
The fix here is to wrap `NgModuleFactory` constructor with `noSideEffects(() => /* ... */)`, which tricks the Closure
compiler into assuming that the invoked function has no side effects. This allows it to tree-shake unused
`NgModuleFactory()` constructors when they aren't imported. Since the factory can be removed, the module can also be
removed (if nothing else references it), thus tree shaking unused components as expected.
PR Close#38147
Large strings constants are now wrapped in a function which is called whenever used. This works around a unique
limitation of Closure, where it will **always** inline string literals at **every** usage, regardless of how large the
string literal is or how many times it is used.The workaround is to use a function rather than a string literal.
Closure has differently inlining semantics for functions, where it will check the length of the function and the number
of times it is used before choosing to inline it. By using a function, `ngtsc` makes Closure more conservative about
inlining large strings, and avoids blowing up the bundle size.This optimization is only used if the constant is a large
string. A wrapping function is not included for other use cases, since it would just increase the bundle size and add
unnecessary runtime performance overhead.
PR Close#38253
This commit adds a method `getDiagnosticsForComponent` to the
`TemplateTypeChecker`, which does the minimum amount of work to retrieve
diagnostics for a single component.
With the normal `ReusedProgramStrategy` this offers virtually no improvement
over the standard `getDiagnosticsForFile` operation, but if the
`TypeCheckingProgramStrategy` supports separate shims for each component,
this operation can yield a faster turnaround for components that are
declared in files with many other components.
PR Close#38105
Previously, a stable template id was implemented for each component in a
file. This commit adds this id to each `TemplateDiagnostic` generated from
the template type-checker, so it can potentially be used for filtration.
PR Close#38105
This commit adds an `overrideComponentTemplate` operation to the template
type-checker. This operation changes the template used during template
type-checking operations.
Overriding a template causes any previous work for it to be discarded, and
the template type-checking engine will regenerate the TCB for that template
on the next request.
This operation can be used by a consumer such as the language service to
get rapid feedback or diagnostics as the user is editing a template file,
without the need for a full incremental build iteration.
Closes#38058
PR Close#38105
Previously, the `TemplateTypeChecker` abstraction allowed fetching
diagnostics for a single file, but under the hood would generate type
checking code for the entire program to satisfy the request.
With this commit, an `OptimizeFor` hint is passed to `getDiagnosticsForFile`
which indicates whether the user intends to request diagnostics for the
whole program or is truly interested in just the single file. If the latter,
the `TemplateTypeChecker` can perform only the work needed to produce
diagnostics for just that file, thus returning answers more efficiently.
PR Close#38105
The template type-checking engine relies on the abstraction interface
`TypeCheckingProgramStrategy` to create updated `ts.Program`s for
template type-checking. The basic API is that the type-checking engine
requests changes to certain files in the program, and the strategy provides
an updated `ts.Program`.
Typically, such changes are made to 'ngtypecheck' shim files, but certain
conditions can cause template type-checking to require "inline" operations,
which change user .ts files instead. The strategy used by 'ngc' (the
`ReusedProgramStrategy`) supports these kinds of updates, but other clients
such as the language service might not always support modifying user files.
To accommodate this, the `TypeCheckingProgramStrategy` interface was
modified to include a `supportsInlineOperations` flag. If an implementation
specifies `false` for inline support, the template type-checking system will
return diagnostics on components which would otherwise require inline
operations.
Closes#38059
PR Close#38105
This commit significantly refactors the 'typecheck' package to introduce a
new abstraction, the `TemplateTypeChecker`. To achieve this:
* a 'typecheck:api' package is introduced, containing common interfaces that
consumers of the template type-checking infrastructure can depend on
without incurring a dependency on the template type-checking machinery as
a whole.
* interfaces for `TemplateTypeChecker` and `TypeCheckContext` are introduced
which contain the abstract operations supported by the implementation
classes `TemplateTypeCheckerImpl` and `TypeCheckContextImpl` respectively.
* the `TemplateTypeChecker` interface supports diagnostics on a whole
program basis to start with, but the implementation is purposefully
designed to support incremental diagnostics at a per-file or per-component
level.
* `TemplateTypeChecker` supports direct access to the type check block of a
component.
* the testing utility is refactored to be a lot more useful, and new tests
are added for the new abstraction.
PR Close#38105
Previously in the template type-checking engine, it was assumed that every
input file would have an associated type-checking shim. The type check block
code for all components in the input file would be generated into this shim.
This is fine for whole-program type checking operations, but to support the
language service's requirements for low latency, it would be ideal to be
able to check a single component in isolation, especially if the component
is declared along with many others in a single file.
This commit removes the assumption that the file/shim mapping is 1:1, and
introduces the concept of component-to-shim mapping. Any
`TypeCheckingProgramStrategy` must provide such a mapping.
To achieve this:
* type checking record information is now split into file-level data as
well as per-shim data.
* components are now assigned a stable `TemplateId` which is unique to the
file in which they're declared.
PR Close#38105
The current implementation of the TypeScriptReflectionHost does not account for members that
are string literals, i.e. `class A { 'string-literal-prop': string; }`
PR Close#38226
Prior to this commit, duplicated styles defined in multiple components in the same file were not
shared between components, thus causing extra payload size. This commit updates compiler logic to
use `ConstantPool` for the styles (while generating the `styles` array on component def), which
enables styles sharing when needed (when duplicates styles are present).
Resolves#38204.
PR Close#38213
This commit splits the transformation into 2 separate steps: Ivy compilation and actual transformation
of corresponding TS nodes. This is needed to have all `o.Expression`s generated before any TS transforms
happen. This allows `ConstantPool` to properly identify expressions that can be shared across multiple
components declared in the same file.
Resolves#38203.
PR Close#38213
In CLI v10 there was a move to use the new solution-style tsconfig
which became available in TS 3.9.
The result of this is that the standard tsconfig.json no longer contains
important information such as "paths" mappings, which ngcc might need to
correctly compute dependencies.
ngcc (and ngc and tsc) infer the path to tsconfig.json if not given an
explicit tsconfig file-path. But now that means it infers the solution
tsconfig rather than one that contains the useful information it used to
get.
This commit logs a warning in this case to inform the developer
that they might not have meant to load this tsconfig and offer
alternative options.
Fixes#36386
PR Close#38003
The `fs.relative()` method assumed that the file-system is a single tree,
which is not the case in Windows, where you can have multiple drives,
e.g. `C:`, `D:` etc.
This commit changes `fs.relative()` so that it no longer forces the result
to be a `PathSegment` and then flows that refactoring through the rest of
the compiler-cli (and ngcc). The main difference is that now, in some cases,
we needed to check whether the result is "rooted", i.e an `AbsoluteFsPath`,
rather than a `PathSegment`, before using it.
Fixes#36777
PR Close#37959
The ngtsc testing packages for file_system and logging were missing from the bazel deps rules, which means that they were not included in the releases
PR Close#37977
Incremental compilation allows for the output state of one compilation to be
reused as input to the next compilation. This involves retaining references
to instances from prior compilations, which must be done carefully to avoid
memory leaks.
This commit fixes such a leak with a complicated retention chain:
* `TrackedIncrementalBuildStrategy` unnecessarily hangs on to the previous
`IncrementalDriver` (state of the previous compilation) once the current
compilation completes.
In general this is unnecessary, but should be safe as long as the chain
only goes back one level - if the `IncrementalDriver` doesn't retain any
previous `TrackedIncrementalBuildStrategy` instances. However, this does
happen:
* `NgCompiler` indirectly causes retention of previous `NgCompiler`
instances (and thus previous `TrackedIncrementalBuildStrategy` instances)
through accidental capture of the `this` context in a closure created in
its constructor. This closure is wrapped in a `ts.ModuleResolutionCache`
used to create a `ModuleResolver` class, which is passed to the program's
`TraitCompiler` on construction.
* The `IncrementalDriver` retains a reference to the `TraitCompiler` of the
previous compilation, completing the reference chain.
The final retention chain thus looks like:
* `TrackedIncrementalBuildStrategy` of current program
* `.previous`: `IncrementalDriver` of previous program
* `.lastGood.traitCompiler`: `TraitCompiler`
* `.handlers[..].moduleResolver.moduleResolutionCache`: cache
* (via `getCanonicalFileName` closure): `NgCompiler`
* `.incrementalStrategy`: `TrackedIncrementalBuildStrategy` of previous
program.
The closure link is the "real" leak here. `NgCompiler` is creating a closure
for `getCanonicalFileName`, delegating to its
`this.adapter.getCanonicalFileName`, for the purposes of creating a
`ts.ModuleResolutionCache`. The fact that the closure references
`NgCompiler` thus eventually causes previous `NgCompiler` iterations to be
retained. This is also potentially problematic due to the shared nature of
`ts.ModuleResolutionCache`, which is potentially retained across multiple
compilations intentionally.
This commit fixes the first two links in the retention chain: the build
strategy is patched to not retain a `previous` pointer, and the `NgCompiler`
is patched to not create a closure in the first place, but instead pass a
bound function. This ensures that the `NgCompiler` does not retain previous
instances of itself in the first place, even if the build strategy does
end up retaining the previous incremental state unnecessarily.
The third link (`IncrementalDriver` unnecessarily retaining the whole
`TraitCompiler`) is not addressed in this commit as it's a more
architectural problem that will require some refactoring. However, the leak
potential of this retention is eliminated thanks to fixing the first two
issues.
PR Close#37835
This commit disables all diagnostic tests for DynamicValue diagnostics which
make assertions about the diagnostic filename while running tests on Windows.
Such assertions are currently suffering from a case sensitivity issue.
PR Close#37763
Several partial_evaluator tests in the diagnostics_spec check assert
correctness of diagnostic filenames. Previously these assertions compared
a resolved (`absoluteFrom`) filename with the TypeScript `ts.SourceFile`'s
`fileName` string, which caused the tests to fail on Windows because the
drive letter case differed.
This commit changes the assertions to use `absoluteFromSourceFile` instead
of the `fileName` string, resulting in an apples-to-apples comparison of
canonicalized paths.
PR Close#37758
This commit introduces a dedicated `DynamicValue` kind to indicate that a value
cannot be evaluated statically as the function body is not just a single return
statement. This allows more accurate reporting of why a function call failed
to be evaluated, i.e. we now include a reference to the function declaration
and have a tailor-made diagnostic message.
PR Close#37587
During AOT compilation, the value of some expressions need to be known at
compile time. The compiler has the ability to statically evaluate expressions
the best it can, but there can be occurrences when an expression cannot be
evaluated statically. For instance, the evaluation could depend on a dynamic
value or syntax is used that the compiler does not understand. Alternatively,
it is possible that an expression could be statically evaluated but the
resulting value would be of an incorrect type.
In these situations, it would be helpful if the compiler could explain why it
is unable to evaluate an expression. To this extend, the static interpreter
in Ivy keeps track of a trail of `DynamicValue`s which follow the path of nodes
that were considered all the way to the node that causes an expression to be
considered dynamic. Up until this commit, this rich trail of information was
not surfaced to a developer so the compiler was of little help to explain
why static evaluation failed, resulting in situations that are hard to debug
and resolve.
This commit adds much more insight to the diagnostic that is produced for static
evaluation errors. For dynamic values, the trail of `DynamicValue` instances
is presented to the user in a meaningful way. If a value is available but not
of the correct type, the type of the resolved value is shown.
Resolves FW-2155
PR Close#37587
Previously, an anonymous type was used for creating a diagnostic with related
information. The anonymous type would then be translated into the necessary
`ts.DiagnosticRelatedInformation` shape within `makeDiagnostic`. This commit
switches the `makeDiagnostic` signature over to taking `ts.DiagnosticRelatedInformation`
directly and introduces `makeRelatedInformation` to easily create such objects.
This is done to aid in making upcoming work more readable.
PR Close#37587
Commit 4213e8d5 introduced shim reference tagging into the compiler, and
changed how the `TypeCheckProgramHost` worked under the hood during the
creation of a template type-checking program. This work enabled a more
incremental flow for template type-checking, but unintentionally introduced
several regressions in performance, caused by poor incrementality during
`ts.Program` creation.
1. The `TypeCheckProgramHost` was made to rely on the `ts.CompilerHost` to
retrieve instances of `ts.SourceFile`s from the original program. If the
host does not return the original instance of such files, but instead
creates new instances, this has two negative effects: it incurs
additional parsing time, and it interferes with TypeScript's ability to
reuse information about such files.
2. During the incremental creation of a `ts.Program`, TypeScript compares
the `referencedFiles` of `ts.SourceFile` instances from the old program
with those in the new program. If these arrays differ, TypeScript cannot
fully reuse the old program. The implementation of reference tagging
introduced in 4213e8d5 restores the original `referencedFiles` array
after a `ts.Program` is created, which means that future incremental
operations involving that program will always fail this comparison,
effectively limiting the incrementality TypeScript can achieve.
Problem 1 exacerbates problem 2: if a new `ts.SourceFile` is created by the
host after shim generation has been disabled, it will have an untagged
`referencedFiles` array even if the original file's `referencedFiles` was
not restored, triggering problem 2 when creating the template type-checking
program.
To fix these issues, `referencedFiles` arrays are now restored on the old
`ts.Program` prior to the creation of a new incremental program. This allows
TypeScript to get the most out of reusing the old program's data.
Additionally, the `TypeCheckProgramHost` now uses the original `ts.Program`
to retrieve original instances of `ts.SourceFile`s where possible,
preventing issues when a host would otherwise return fresh instances.
Together, these fixes ensure that program reuse is as incremental as
possible, and tests have been added to verify this for certain scenarios.
An optimization was further added to prevent the creation of a type-checking
`ts.Program` in the first place if no type-checking is necessary.
PR Close#37641
Source-maps can be linked to from a source-file by a comment at
the end of the file.
Previously the `SourceFileLoader` would read
the first comment that matched `//# sourceMappingURL=` but
this is not valid since some bundlers may include embedded
source-files that contain such a comment.
Now we only look for this comment in the last non-empty line
in the file.
PR Close#32912
Previously localized strings were not mapped to their original
source location, so it was not possible to back-trace them
in tools like the i18n message extractor.
PR Close#32912
Webpack and other build tools sometimes inline the contents of the
source files in their generated source-maps, and at the same time
change the paths to be prefixed with a protocol, such as `webpack://`.
This can confuse tools that need to read these paths, so now it is
possible to provide a mapping to where these files originated.
PR Close#32912
This method will allow us to find the original location given a
generated location, which is useful in fine grained work with
source-mapping. E.g. in `$localize` tooling.
PR Close#32912
The `SourceFile` and associated code is general and reusable in
other projects (such as `@angular/localize`). Moving it to `ngtsc`
makes it more easily shared.
PR Close#37114
The `Logger` interface and its related classes are general purpose
and could be used by other tooling. Moving it into ngtsc is a more
suitable place from which to share it - similar to the FileSystem stuff.
PR Close#37114
We recently added a transformer to NGC that is responsible for downleveling Angular
decorators and constructor parameter types. The primary goal was to mitigate a
TypeScript limitation/issue that surfaces in Angular projects due to the heavy
reliance on type metadata being captured for DI. Additionally this is a pre-requisite
of making `tsickle` optional in the Angular bazel toolchain.
See: 401ef71ae5b01be95d124184a0b6936fc453a5d4 for more context on this.
Another (less important) goal was to make sure that the CLI can re-use
this transformer for its JIT mode compilation. The CLI (as outlined in
the commit mentioned above), already has a transformer for downleveling
constructor parameters. We want to avoid this duplication and exported
the transform through the tooling-private compiler entry-point.
Early experiments in using this transformer over the current one, highlighted
that in JIT, class decorators cannot be downleveled. Angular relies on those
to be invoked immediately for JIT (so that factories etc. are generated upon loading)
The transformer we exposed, always downlevels such class decorators
though, so that would break CLI's JIT mode. We can address the CLI's
needs by adding another flag to skip class decorators. This will allow
us to continue with the goal of de-duplication.
PR Close#37545
Commit 24b2f1da2b introduced an `NgCompiler` which operates on a
`ts.Program` independently of the `NgtscProgram`. The NgCompiler got its
`IncrementalDriver` (for incremental reuse of Angular compilation results)
by looking at a monkey-patched property on the `ts.Program`.
This monkey-patching operation causes problems with the Angular indexer
(specifically, it seems to cause the indexer to retain too much of prior
programs, resulting in OOM issues). To work around this, `IncrementalDriver`
reuse is now handled by a dedicated `IncrementalBuildStrategy`. One
implementation of this interface is used by the `NgtscProgram` to perform
the old-style reuse, relying on the previous instance of `NgtscProgram`
instead of monkey-patching. Only for `NgTscPlugin` is the monkey-patching
strategy used, as the plugin sits behind an interface which only provides
access to the `ts.Program`, not a prior instance of the plugin.
PR Close#37339
Currently the partial evaluator isn't able to resolve a variable declaration that uses destructuring in the form of `const {value} = {value: 0}; const foo = value;`. These changes add some logic to allow for us to resolve the variable's value.
Fixes#36917.
PR Close#37497
Adds @nocollapse to static properties added by ngcc
iff annotateForClosureCompiler is true.
The Closure Compiler will collapse static properties
into the global namespace. Adding this annotation keeps
the properties attached to their respective object, which
allows them to be referenced via a class's constructor.
The annotation is already added by ngtsc and ngc under the
same option, this commit extends the functionality to ngcc.
Closes#36618.
PR Close#36652
In v7 of Angular we removed `tsickle` from the default `ngc` pipeline.
This had the negative potential of breaking ES2015 output and SSR due
to a limitation in TypeScript.
TypeScript by default preserves type information for decorated constructor
parameters when `emitDecoratorMetadata` is enabled. For example,
consider this snippet below:
```
@Directive()
export class MyDirective {
constructor(button: MyButton) {}
}
export class MyButton {}
```
TypeScript would generate metadata for the `MyDirective` class it has
a decorator applied. This metadata would be needed in JIT mode, or
for libraries that provide `MyDirective` through NPM. The metadata would
look as followed:
```
let MyDirective = class MyDir {}
MyDirective = __decorate([
Directive(),
__metadata("design:paramtypes", [MyButton]),
], MyDirective);
let MyButton = class MyButton {}
```
Notice that TypeScript generated calls to `__decorate` and
`__metadata`. These calls are needed so that the Angular compiler
is able to determine whether `MyDirective` is actually an directive,
and what types are needed for dependency injection.
The limitation surfaces in this concrete example because `MyButton`
is declared after the `__metadata(..)` call, while `__metadata`
actually directly references `MyButton`. This is illegal though because
`MyButton` has not been declared at this point. This is due to the
so-called temporal dead zone in JavaScript. Errors like followed will
be reported at runtime when such file/code evaluates:
```
Uncaught ReferenceError: Cannot access 'MyButton' before initialization
```
As noted, this is a TypeScript limitation because ideally TypeScript
shouldn't evaluate `__metadata`/reference `MyButton` immediately.
Instead, it should defer the reference until `MyButton` is actually
declared. This limitation will not be fixed by the TypeScript team
though because it's a limitation as per current design and they will
only revisit this once the tc39 decorator proposal is finalized
(currently stage-2 at time of writing).
Given this wontfix on the TypeScript side, and our heavy reliance on
this metadata in libraries (and for JIT mode), we intend to fix this
from within the Angular compiler by downleveling decorators to static
properties that don't need to evaluate directly. For example:
```
MyDirective.ctorParameters = () => [MyButton];
```
With this snippet above, `MyButton` is not referenced directly. Only
lazily when the Angular runtime needs it. This mitigates the temporal
dead zone issue caused by a limitation in TypeScript's decorator
metadata output. See: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27519.
In the past (as noted; before version 7), the Angular compiler by
default used tsickle that already performed this transformation. We
moved the transformation to the CLI for JIT and `ng-packager`, but now
we realize that we can move this all to a single place in the compiler
so that standalone ngc consumers can benefit too, and that we can
disable tsickle in our Bazel `ngc-wrapped` pipeline (that currently
still relies on tsickle to perform this decorator processing).
This transformation also has another positive side-effect of making
Angular application/library code more compatible with server-side
rendering. In principle, TypeScript would also preserve type information
for decorated class members (similar to how it did that for constructor
parameters) at runtime. This becomes an issue when your application
relies on native DOM globals for decorated class member types. e.g.
```
@Input() panelElement: HTMLElement;
```
Your application code would then reference `HTMLElement` directly
whenever the source file is loaded in NodeJS for SSR. `HTMLElement`
does not exist on the server though, so that will become an invalid
reference. One could work around this by providing global mocks for
these DOM symbols, but that doesn't match up with other places where
dependency injection is used for mocking DOM/browser specific symbols.
More context in this issue: #30586. The TL;DR here is that the Angular
compiler does not care about types for these class members, so it won't
ever reference `HTMLElement` at runtime.
Fixes#30106. Fixes#30586. Fixes#30141.
Resolves FW-2196. Resolves FW-2199.
PR Close#37382
The new tooling-cli-shared-api is used to guard changes to packages/compiler-cli/src/tooling.ts
which is a private API sharing channel between Angular FW and CLI.
Changes to this file should be rare and explicitly approved by at least two members
of the CLI team.
PR Close#37467
`NgCompiler` is the heart of ngtsc and can be used to analyze and compile
Angular programs in a variety of environments. Most of these integrations
rely on `NgProgram` and the creation of an `NgCompilerHost` in order to
create a `ts.Program` with the right shape for `NgCompiler`.
However, certain environments (such as the Angular Language Service) have
their own mechanisms for creating `ts.Program`s that don't make use of a
`ts.CompilerHost`. In such environments, an `NgCompilerHost` does not make
sense.
This commit breaks the dependency of `NgCompiler` on `NgCompilerHost` and
extracts the specific interface of the host on which `NgCompiler` depends
into a new interface, `NgCompilerAdapter`. This interface includes methods
from `ts.CompilerHost`, the `ExtendedTsCompilerHost`, as well as APIs from
`NgCompilerHost`.
A consumer such as the language service can implement this API without
needing to jump through hoops to create an `NgCompilerHost` implementation
that somehow wraps its specific environment.
PR Close#37118
