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
1. update jasmine to 3.5
2. update @types/jasmine to 3.5
3. update @types/jasminewd2 to 2.0.8
Also fix several cases, the new jasmine 3 will help to create test cases correctly,
such as in the `jasmine 2.x` version, the following case will pass
```
expect(1 == 2);
```
But in jsamine 3, the case will need to be
```
expect(1 == 2).toBeTrue();
```
PR Close#34625
The compiler exports a `formatDiagnostics` function which consumers can use
to print both ts and ng diagnostics. However, this function was previously
using the "old" style TypeScript diagnostics, as opposed to the modern
diagnostic printer which uses terminal colors and prints additional context
information.
This commit updates `formatDiagnostics` to use the modern formatter, plus to
update Ivy's negative error codes to Angular 'NG' errors.
The Angular CLI needs a little more work to use this function for printing
TS diagnostics, but this commit alone should fix Bazel builds as ngc-wrapped
goes through `formatDiagnostics`.
PR Close#34234
Libraries can expose directive/component base classes that will be
used by consumer applications. Using such a base class from another
compilation unit works fine with "ngtsc", but when using "ngc", the
compiler will thrown an error saying that the base class is not
part of a NgModule. e.g.
```
Cannot determine the module for class X in Y! Add X to the NgModule to fix it.
```
This seems to be because the logic for distinguishing directives from
abstract directives is scoped to the current compilation unit within
ngc. This causes abstract directives from other compilation units to
be considered as actual directives (causing the exception).
PR Close#33347
Injectable defs are not considered public API, so the property
that contains them should be prefixed with Angular's marker
for "private" ('ɵ') to discourage apps from relying on def
APIs directly.
This commit adds the prefix and shortens the name from
ngInjectableDef to "prov" (for "provider", since injector defs
are known as "inj"). This is because property names cannot
be minified by Uglify without turning on property mangling
(which most apps have turned off) and are thus size-sensitive.
PR Close#33151
This commit switches the default value of the enableIvy flag to true.
Applications that run ngc will now by default receive an Ivy build!
This does not affect the way Bazel builds in the Angular repo work, since
those are still switched based on the value of the --define=compile flag.
Additionally, projects using @angular/bazel still use View Engine builds
by default.
Since most of the Angular repo tests are still written against View Engine
(particularly because we still publish VE packages to NPM), this switch
also requires lots of `enableIvy: false` flags in tsconfigs throughout the
repo.
Congrats to the team for reaching this milestone!
PR Close#32219
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
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
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
There is an encoding issue with using delta `Δ`, where the browser will attempt to detect the file encoding if the character set is not explicitly declared on a `<script/>` tag, and Chrome will find the `Δ` character and decide it is window-1252 encoding, which misinterprets the `Δ` character to be some other character that is not a valid JS identifier character
So back to the frog eyes we go.
```
__
/ɵɵ\
( -- ) - I am ineffable. I am forever.
_/ \_
/ \ / \
== == ==
```
PR Close#30546
```
//packages/compiler-cli/test:ngc
//packages/compiler/test:test
```
This also address `node_modules` to the ignored paths for ngc compiler as otherwise the `ready` is never fired
Partially addresses #29785
PR Close#30146
The compiler uses metadata to represent what it statically knows about
various expressions in a program. Occasionally, expressions in the program
for which metadata is extracted may contain sub-expressions which are not
representable in metadata. One such construct is an arrow function.
The compiler does not always need to understand such expressions completely.
For example, for a provider defined with `useValue`, the compiler does not
need to understand the value at all, only the outer provider definition. In
this case, the compiler employs a technique known as "expression lowering",
where it rewrites the provider expression into one that can be represented
in metadata. Chiefly, this involves extracting out the dynamic part (the
`useValue` expression) into an exported constant.
Lowering is applied through a heuristic, which considers the containing
statement as well as the field name of the expression.
Previously, this heuristic was not completely accurate in the case of
route definitions and the `loadChildren` field, which is lowered. If the
route definition using `loadChildren` existed inside a decorator invocation,
lowering was performed correctly. However, if it existed inside a standalone
variable declaration with an export keyword, the heuristic would conclude
that lowering was unnecessary. For ordinary providers this is true; however
the compiler attempts to fully understand the ROUTES token and thus even if
an array of routes is declared in an exported variable, any `loadChildren`
expressions within still need to be lowered.
This commit enables lowering of already exported variables under a limited
set of conditions (where the initializer expression is of a specific form).
This should enable the use of `loadChildren` in route definitions.
PR Close#30038
The `Δ` caused issue with other infrastructure, and we are temporarily
changing it to `ɵɵ`.
This commit also patches ts_api_guardian_test and AIO to understand `ɵɵ`.
PR Close#29850
Currently setting `enableIvy` to true runs a hybrid mode of `ngc` and `ngtsc`. This is counterintuitive given the name of the flag itself.
This PR makes the `true` value equivalent to the previous `ngtsc`, and `ngtsc` becomes an alias for `true`. Effectively this removes the hybrid mode as well since there's no other way to enable it.
PR Close#28616
With #28594 we refactored the `@angular/compiler` slightly to
allow opting out from external symbol re-exports which are
enabled by default.
Since symbol re-exports only benefit projects which have a
very strict dependency enforcement, external symbols should
not be re-exported by default as this could grow the size of
factory files and cause unexpected behavior with Angular's
AOT symbol resolving (e.g. see: #25644).
Note that the common strict dependency enforcement for source
files does still work with external symbol re-exports disabled,
but there are also strict dependency checks that enforce strict
module dependencies also for _generated files_ (such as the
ngfactory files). This is how Google3 manages it's dependencies
and therefore external symbol re-exports need to be enabled within
Google3.
Also "ngtsc" also does not provide any way of using external symbol
re-exports, so this means that with this change, NGC can partially
match the behavior of "ngtsc" then (unless explicitly opted-out).
As mentioned before, internally at Google symbol re-exports need to
be still enabled, so the `ng_module` Bazel rule will enable the symbol
re-exports by default when running within Blaze.
Fixes#25644.
PR Close#28633
Note that this fixes `compiler-cli` tests within `compiler-cli/test`,
but there seem to be remaining `ngcc` tests within `compiler-cli/src`
which aren't working on Windows. This is out-of-scope for this commit.
PR Close#28352
Since we recently removed the `test.sh` script, and now run
all tests with Bazel, we can remove the unused logic that makes
compiler-cli tests pass in non-Bazel.
This cleans up the tests, and also makes it easier to write tests
without worrying about two ways of the Angular package output
(Bazel `ng_package` rules vs. old `build.sh` logic of building)
PR Close#28352
Typescript 3.2 introduced BigInt type, and consequently the
implementation for checkExpressionWorker() in checkers.ts is refactored.
For NumberLiteral and StringLiteral types, 'text' filed must be present
in the Node type, therefore they must be LiteralLikeNode instead of
Node.
PR Close#27536
With these changes, the types are a little stricter now and also not
compatible with Protractor's jasmine-like syntax. So, we have to also
use `@types/jasminewd2` for e2e tests (but not for non-e2e tests).
I also had to "augment" `@types/jasminewd2`, because the latest
typings from [DefinitelyTyped][1] do not reflect the fact that the
`jasminewd2` version (v2.1.0) currently used by Protractor supports
passing a `done` callback to a spec.
[1]: 566e039485/types/jasminewd2/index.d.ts (L9-L15)Fixes#23952Closes#24733
PR Close#19904
Previously, the compileComponent() and compileDirective() APIs still required
the output of global analysis, even though they only read local information
from that output.
With this refactor, compileComponent() and compileDirective() now define
their inputs explicitly, with the new interfaces R3ComponentMetadata and
R3DirectiveMetadata. compileComponentGlobal() and compileDirectiveGlobal()
are introduced and convert from global analysis output into the new metadata
format.
This refactor also splits out the view compiler into separate files as
r3_view_compiler_local.ts was getting unwieldy.
Finally, this refactor also splits out generation of DI factory functions
into a separate r3_factory utility as the logic is utilized between different
compilers.
PR Close#23545
Ivy definition looks something like this:
```
class MyService {
static ngInjectableDef = defineInjectable({
…
});
}
```
Here the argument to `defineInjectable` is well known public contract which needs
to be honored in backward compatible way between versions. The type of the
return value of `defineInjectable` on the other hand is private and can change
shape drastically between versions without effecting backwards compatibility of
libraries publish to NPM. To our users it is effectively an `OpaqueToken`.
By prefixing the type with `ɵ` we are communicating the the outside world that
the value is not public API and is subject to change without backward compatibility.
PR Close#23371
- Remove default injection value from `inject` / `directiveInject` since
it is not possible to set using annotations.
- Module `Injector` is stored on `LView` instead of `LInjector` data
structure because it can change only at `LView` level. (More efficient)
- Add `ngInjectableDef` to `IterableDiffers` so that existing tests can
pass as well as enable `IterableDiffers` to be injectable without
`Injector`
PR Close#23345
This change changes:
- compiler uses `directiveInject` instead of `inject` for `Directive`s
- unifies the flags in `di` as well as `render3`
- changes the signature of `directiveInject` to match `inject` In prep for #23330
- compiler now generates flags for injection.
Compiler portion of #23342
Prep for #23330
PR Close#23345
rxjs 6.0.0 breaks strictMetadataEmit as they now publish a .d.ts file with a
structure like:
declare export class Subscription {
static EMPTY: Subscription;
}
This generates metadata which contains an error, and fails the strictMetadataEmit
validation. There is nothing a library author can do in this situation except to
set strictMetadataEmit to false.
The spirit of strictMetadataEmit is to validate that the author's library doesn't
do anything that will break downstream users. This failure is a corner case which
causes more harm than good, so this commit disables validation for metadata
collected from .d.ts files.
Fixes#22210
PR Close#23275
Lowering expressions in flat module metadata is desirable, but it won't
work without some rearchitecting. Currently the flat module index source
is added to the Program and therefore must be determined before the rest
of the transforms run. Since the lowering transform changes the set of
exports needed in the index, this creates a catch-22 in the index
generation.
This commit causes the flat module index metadata to be generated using
only those transforms which are "safe" (don't modify the index).
PR Close#23226
Currently, the flat module index metadata is produced directly from
the source metadata. The compiler, however, applies transformations
on the Typescript sources during transpilation, and also equivalent
transformations on the metadata itself. This transformed metadata
doesn't end up in the flat module index.
This changes the compiler to generate the flat module index metadata
from its transformed version instead of directly from source.
PR Close#23129
Computing the value of loadChildren does not work externally, as the CLI
needs to be able to detect the paths referenced to properly set up
codesplitting. However, internally, different approaches to codesplitting
require hashed module IDs, and the computation of those hashes involves
something like:
{path: '...', loadChildren: hashFn('module')}
ngc should lower loadChildren into an exported constant in that case.
This will never break externally, because loadChildren is always a
string externally, and a string won't get lowered.
PR Close#23088
This adds compilation of @NgModule providers and imports into
ngInjectorDef statements in generated code. All @NgModule annotations
will be compiled and the @NgModule decorators removed from the
resultant js output.
All @Injectables will also be compiled in Ivy mode, and the decorator
removed.
PR Close#22458
Rename @Injectable({scope -> providedIn}).
Instead of {providedIn: APP_ROOT_SCOPE}, accept {providedIn: 'root'}.
Also, {providedIn: null} implies the injectable should not be added
to any scope.
PR Close#22655
Closure has a transformation which turns:
Service.ngInjectableDef = ...;
into:
Service$ngInjectableDef = ...;
This transformation obviously breaks Ivy in a major way. The solution is
to annotate the fields as @nocollapse. However, Typescript appears to ignore
synthetic comments added to a node during a transformation, so the "right"
way to add these comments doesn't work.
As an interim measure, a post-processing step just before the compiled JS is
written to disk appends the correct comments with a regular expression.
PR Close#22691
When the compiler generates a reference to an exported variable in the
same file, it inserts a synthetic ts.Identifier node. In CommonJS
output, this synthetic node would not be properly rewritten with an
`exports.` prefix.
This change sets the TS original node property on the synthetic node
we generate, which ensures TS knows to rewrite it in CommonJS output.
PR Close#22564
When angularCompilerOptions { enableResourceInlining: true }, we replace all templateUrl and styleUrls properties in @Component with template/styles
PR Close#22615
InjectionToken can be created with an ngInjectableDef, and previously
this allowed the full expressiveness of @Injectable. However, this
requires a runtime reflection system in order to generate factories
from expressed provider declarations.
Instead, this change requires scoped InjectionTokens to provide the
factory directly (likely using inject() for the arguments), bypassing
the need for a reflection system.
Fixes#22205
PR Close#22207
This commit bundles 3 important changes, with the goal of enabling tree-shaking
of services which are never injected. Ordinarily, this tree-shaking is prevented
by the existence of a hard dependency on the service by the module in which it
is declared.
Firstly, @Injectable() is modified to accept a 'scope' parameter, which points
to an @NgModule(). This reverses the dependency edge, permitting the module to
not depend on the service which it "provides".
Secondly, the runtime is modified to understand the new relationship created
above. When a module receives a request to inject a token, and cannot find that
token in its list of providers, it will then look at the token for a special
ngInjectableDef field which indicates which module the token is scoped to. If
that module happens to be in the injector, it will behave as if the token
itself was in the injector to begin with.
Thirdly, the compiler is modified to read the @Injectable() metadata and to
generate the special ngInjectableDef field as part of TS compilation, using the
PartialModules system.
Additionally, this commit adds several unit and integration tests of various
flavors to test this change.
PR Close#22005
Paul Gschwendtner
Joey Perrott
Alan Agius
JiaLiPassion
Alex Rickabaugh
Igor Minar
Kara Erickson
Pete Bacon Darwin
Ben Lesh
Filipe Silva
Keen Yee Liau
Alex Eagle
George Kalpakas
Miško Hevery
Chuck Jazdzewski