When the target of the compiler is ES2015 or newer then we should
be generating `let` and `const` variable declarations rather than `var`.
PR Close#38775
The cast to `ts.Identifier` was a hack that "just happened to work".
The new approach is more robust and doesn't have to undermine
the type checker.
PR Close#38775
This commit re-enables some tests that were temporarily disabled on Windows,
as they failed on native Windows CI. The Windows filesystem emulation has
been corrected in an earlier commit, such that the original failure would
now also occur during emulation on Linux CI.
PR Close#37782
In native windows, the drive letter is a capital letter, while our Windows
filesystem emulation would use lowercase drive letters. This difference may
introduce tests to behave differently in native Windows versus emulated
Windows, potentially causing unexpected CI failures on Windows CI after a PR
has been merged.
Resolves FW-2267
PR Close#37782
The logic for computing identifiers, specifically for bound attributes
can be simplified by using the value span of the binding rather than the
source span.
PR Close#38899
In #38666 we changed how ngcc deals with type expressions, where it
would now always emit the original type expression into the generated
code as a "local" type value reference instead of synthesizing new
imports using an "imported" type value reference. This was done as a fix
to properly deal with renamed symbols, however it turns out that the
compiler has special handling for certain imported symbols, e.g.
`ChangeDetectorRef` from `@angular/core`. The "local" type value
reference prevented this special logic from being hit, resulting in
incorrect compilation of pipe factories.
This commit fixes the issue by manually inspecting the import of the
type expression, in order to return an "imported" type value reference.
By manually inspecting the import we continue to handle renamed symbols.
Fixes#38883
PR Close#38892
Common AST formats such as TS and Babel do not use a separate
node for comments, but instead attach comments to other AST nodes.
Previously this was worked around in TS by creating a `NotEmittedStatement`
AST node to attach the comment to. But Babel does not have this facility,
so it will not be a viable approach for the linker.
This commit refactors the output AST, to remove the `CommentStmt` and
`JSDocCommentStmt` nodes. Instead statements have a collection of
`leadingComments` that are rendered/attached to the final AST nodes
when being translated or printed.
PR Close#38811
This change prevents comments from a resolved node from appearing at
each location the resolved expression is used and also prevents callers
of `Scope#resolve` from accidentally modifying / adding comments to the
declaration site.
PR Close#38857
In the integration test suite of ngcc, we load a set of files from
`node_modules` into memory. This includes the `typescript` package and
`@angular` scoped packages, which account for a large number of large
files that needs to be loaded from disk. This commit moves this work
to the top-level, such that it doesn't have to be repeated in all tests.
PR Close#38840
Recent optimizations to ngcc have significantly reduced the total time
it takes to process `node_modules`, to such extend that sharding across
multiple processes has become less effective. Previously, running
ngcc asynchronously would allow for up to 8 workers to be allocated,
however these workers have to repeat work that could otherwise be shared.
Because ngcc is now able to reuse more shared computations, the overhead
of multiple workers is increased and therefore becomes less effective.
As an additional benefit, having fewer workers requires less memory and
less startup time.
To give an idea, using the following test setup:
```bash
npx @angular/cli new perf-test
cd perf-test
yarn ng add @angular/material
./node_modules/.bin/ngcc --properties es2015 module main \
--first-only --create-ivy-entry-points
```
We observe the following figures on CI:
| | 10.1.1 | PR #38840 |
| ----------------- | --------- | --------- |
| Sync | 85s | 25s |
| Async (8 workers) | 22s | 16s |
| Async (4 workers) | - | 11s |
In addition to changing the default number of workers, ngcc will now
use the environment variable `NGCC_MAX_WORKERS` that may be configured
to either reduce or increase the number of workers.
PR Close#38840
ngcc creates typically two `ts.Program` instances for each entry-point,
one for processing sources and another one for processing the typings.
The creation of these programs is somewhat expensive, as it concerns
module resolution and parsing of source files.
This commit implements several layers of caching to optimize the
creation of programs:
1. A shared module resolution cache across all entry-points within a
single invocation of ngcc. Both the sources and typings program
benefit from this cache.
2. Sharing the parsed `ts.SourceFile` for a single entry-point between
the sources and typings program.
3. Sharing parsed `ts.SourceFile`s of TypeScript's default libraries
across all entry-points within a single invocation. Some of these
default library typings are large and therefore expensive to parse,
so sharing the parsed source files across all entry-points offers
a significant performance improvement.
Using a bare CLI app created using `ng new` + `ng add @angular/material`,
the above changes offer a 3-4x improvement in ngcc's processing time
when running synchronously and ~2x improvement for asynchronous runs.
PR Close#38840
When type-checking a component, the declaring NgModule scope is used
to create a directive matcher that contains flattened directive metadata,
i.e. the metadata of a directive and its base classes. This computation
is done for all components, whereas the type-check scope is constant per
NgModule. Additionally, the flattening of metadata is constant per
directive instance so doesn't necessarily have to be recomputed for
each component.
This commit introduces a `TypeCheckScopes` class that is responsible
for flattening directives and computing the scope per NgModule. It
caches the computed results as appropriate to avoid repeated computation.
PR Close#38539
For the compilation of a component, the compiler has to prepare some
information about the directives and pipes that are used in the template.
This information includes an expression for directives/pipes, for usage
within the compilation output. For large NgModule compilation scopes
this has shown to introduce a performance hotspot, as the generation of
expressions is quite expensive. This commit reduces the performance
overhead by only generating expressions for the directives/pipes that
are actually used within the template, significantly cutting down on
the compiler's resolve phase.
PR Close#38539
Adds `TemplateTypeChecker` operation to retrieve the `Symbol` of a
`TmplAstVariable` or `TmplAstReference` in a template.
Sometimes we need to traverse an intermediate variable declaration to arrive at
the correct `ts.Symbol`. For example, loop variables are declared using an intermediate:
```
<div *ngFor="let user of users">
{{user.name}}
</div>
```
Getting the symbol of user here (from the expression) is tricky, because the TCB looks like:
```
var _t0 = ...; // type of NgForOf
var _t1: any; // context of embedded view for NgForOf structural directive
if (NgForOf.ngTemplateContextGuard(_t0, _t1)) {
// _t1 is now NgForOfContext<...>
var _t2 = _t1.$implicit; // let user = '$implicit'
_t2.name; // user.name expression
}
```
Just getting the `ts.Expression` for the `AST` node `PropRead(ImplicitReceiver, 'user')`
via the sourcemaps will yield the `_t2` expression. This function recognizes that `_t2`
is a variable declared locally in the TCB, and actually fetch the `ts.Symbol` of its initializer.
These special handlings show the versatility of the `Symbol`
interface defined in the API. With this, when we encounter a template variable,
we can provide the declaration node, as well as specific information
about the variable instance, such as the `ts.Type` and `ts.Symbol`.
PR Close#38618
Adds support to the `TemplateTypeChecker` to get a `Symbol` of an AST
expression in a component template.
Not all expressions will have `ts.Symbol`s (e.g. there is no `ts.Symbol`
associated with the expression `a + b`, but there are for both the a and b
nodes individually).
PR Close#38618
Adds support to the `TemplateTypeChecker` for retrieving a `Symbol` for
`TmplAstTemplate` and `TmplAstElement` nodes in a component template.
PR Close#38618
Specifically, this commit adds support for retrieving a `Symbol` from a
`TmplAstBoundEvent` or `TmplAstBoundAttribute`. Other template nodes
will be supported in following commits.
PR Close#38618
The statements generated in the TCB are optimized for performance and producing diagnostics.
These optimizations can result in generating a TCB that does not have all the information
needed by the `TemplateTypeChecker` for retrieving `Symbol`s. For example, as an optimization,
the TCB will not generate variable declaration statements for directives that have no
references, inputs, or outputs. However, the `TemplateTypeChecker` always needs these
statements to be present in order to provide `ts.Symbol`s and `ts.Type`s for the directives.
This commit adds logic to the TCB generation to ensure the required
information is available in a form that the `TemplateTypeChecker` can
consume. It also adds an option to the `NgCompiler` that makes this
generation configurable.
PR Close#38618
This commit defines the interfaces which outline the information the
`TemplateTypeChecker` can return when requesting a Symbol for an item in the
`TemplateAst`.
Rather than providing the `ts.Symbol`, `ts.Type`, etc.
information in several separate functions, the `TemplateTypeChecker` can
instead provide all the useful information it knows about a particular
node in the `TemplateAst` and allow the callers to determine what to do
with it.
PR Close#38618
When type-checking a component, the declaring NgModule scope is used
to create a directive matcher that contains flattened directive metadata,
i.e. the metadata of a directive and its base classes. This computation
is done for all components, whereas the type-check scope is constant per
NgModule. Additionally, the flattening of metadata is constant per
directive instance so doesn't necessarily have to be recomputed for
each component.
This commit introduces a `TypeCheckScopes` class that is responsible
for flattening directives and computing the scope per NgModule. It
caches the computed results as appropriate to avoid repeated computation.
PR Close#38539
For the compilation of a component, the compiler has to prepare some
information about the directives and pipes that are used in the template.
This information includes an expression for directives/pipes, for usage
within the compilation output. For large NgModule compilation scopes
this has shown to introduce a performance hotspot, as the generation of
expressions is quite expensive. This commit reduces the performance
overhead by only generating expressions for the directives/pipes that
are actually used within the template, significantly cutting down on
the compiler's resolve phase.
PR Close#38539
The type-to-value conversion could previously crash if a symbol was
resolved that does not have any declarations, e.g. because it's imported
from a missing module. This would typically result in a semantic
TypeScript diagnostic and halt further compilation, therefore not
reaching the type-to-value conversion logic. In Bazel however, it turns
out that Angular semantic diagnostics are requested even if there are
semantic TypeScript errors in the program, so it would then reach the
type-to-value conversation and crash.
This commit fixes the unsafe access and adds a test that ignores the
TypeScript semantic error, effectively replicating the situation as
experienced under Bazel.
Fixes#38670
PR Close#38684
Previously, localized strings had very limited or incorrect source-mapping
information available.
Now the i18n AST nodes and related output AST nodes include source-span
information about message-parts and placeholders - including closing tag
placeholders.
This information is then used when generating the final localized string
ASTs to ensure that the correct source-mapping is rendered.
See #38588 (comment)
PR Close#38645
Previously this interface was mostly stored in compiler-cli, but it
contains some properties that would be useful for compiling the
"declare component" prelink code.
This commit moves some of the interface over to the compiler
package so that it can be referenced there without creating a
circular dependency between the compiler and compiler-cli.
PR Close#38594
The `R3TargetBinder` accepts an interface for directive metadata which
declares types for `input` and `output` objects. These types convey the
mapping between the property names for an input or output and the
corresponding property name on the component class. Due to
`R3TargetBinder`'s requirements, this mapping was specified with property
names as keys and field names as values.
However, because of duck typing, this interface was accidentally satisifed
by the opposite mapping, of field names to property names, that was produced
in other parts of the compiler. This form more naturally represents the data
model for inputs.
Rather than accept the field -> property mapping and invert it, this commit
introduces a new abstraction for such mappings which is bidirectional,
eliminating the ambiguous plain object type. This mapping uses new,
unambiguous terminology ("class property name" and "binding property name")
and can be used to satisfy both the needs of the binder as well as those of
the template type-checker (field -> property).
A new test ensures that the input/output metadata produced by the compiler
during analysis is directly compatible with the binder via this unambiguous
new interface.
PR Close#38685
If a type has been renamed when it was exported, we need to
reference the external public alias name rather than the internal
original name for the type. Otherwise we will try to import the
type by its internal name, which is not publicly accessible.
Fixes#38238
PR Close#38666
A recent change to `@angular/localize` brought in the `AbsoluteFsPath` type
from the `@angular/compiler-cli`. But this brought along with it a reference
to NodeJS typings - specifically the `FileSystem` interface refers to the
`Buffer` type from NodeJS.
This affects compilation of `@angular/localize` code that will be run in
the browser - for example projects that reference `loadTranslations()`.
The compilation breaks if the NodeJS typings are not included in the build.
Clearly it is not desirable to have these typings included when the project
is not targeting NodeJS.
This commit replaces references to the NodeJS `Buffer` type with `Uint8Array`,
which is available across all platforms and is actually the super-class of
`Buffer`.
Fixes#38692
PR Close#38700
Previously, the compiler was not able to display template parsing errors as
true `ts.Diagnostic`s that point inside the template. Instead, it would
throw an actual `Error`, and "crash" with a stack trace containing the
template errors.
Not only is this a poor user experience, but it causes the Language Service
to also crash as the user is editing a template (in actuality the LS has to
work around this bug).
With this commit, such parsing errors are converted to true template
diagnostics with appropriate span information to be displayed contextually
along with all other diagnostics. This majorly improves the user experience
and unblocks the Language Service from having to deal with the compiler
"crashing" to report errors.
PR Close#38576
The template type-checking engine includes utilities for creating
`ts.Diagnostic`s for component templates. Previously only the template type-
checker itself created such diagnostics. However, the template parser also
produces errors which should be represented as template diagnostics.
This commit prepares for that conversion by extracting the machinery for
producing template diagnostics into its own sub-package, so that other parts
of the compiler can depend on it without depending on the entire template
type-checker.
PR Close#38576
Previously, the `sourceSpan` and `startSourceSpan` were the same
object, which meant that you had the following situation:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
This made `sourceSpan` redundant and meant that if you
wanted a span for the whole element including its content
and closing tag, it had to be computed.
Now `sourceSpan` is separated from `startSourceSpan`
resulting in:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>some content</div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
PR Close#38581
Previously the lexer was responsible for deciding whether an "inline"
template should also have its line-endings normalized.
Now this decision is made higher up in the call stack to allow more
flexibility in the parser/lexer.
PR Close#38581
The HTML parser gets an element's namespace either from the tag name
(e.g. `<svg:rect>`) or from its parent element `<svg><rect></svg>`) which
breaks down when an element is inside of an SVG `foreignElement`,
because foreign elements allow nodes from a different namespace to be
inserted into an SVG.
These changes add another flag to the tag definitions which tells child
nodes whether to try to inherit their namespaces from their parents.
It also adds a definition for `foreignObject` with the new flag,
allowing elements placed inside it to infer their namespaces instead.
Fixes#37218.
PR Close#38477
With Typescript 4, `ts.updateIdentifier` is no longer available.
Calling `ts.updateIdentifier` used to return the same node when
`typeArguments` was `undefined` because `node.typeArguments`
was also `undefined`.
Relevant TS code:
```js
function updateIdentifier(node, typeArguments) {
return node.typeArguments !== typeArguments
? updateNode(createIdentifier(ts.idText(node), typeArguments), node)
: node;
}
```
PR Close#38076
Prior to this change, the unary + and - operators would be parsed as `x - 0`
and `0 - x` respectively. The runtime semantics of these expressions are
equivalent, however they may introduce inaccurate template type checking
errors as the literal type is lost, for example:
```ts
@Component({
template: `<button [disabled]="isAdjacent(-1)"></button>`
})
export class Example {
isAdjacent(direction: -1 | 1): boolean { return false; }
}
```
would incorrectly report a type-check error:
> error TS2345: Argument of type 'number' is not assignable to parameter
of type '-1 | 1'.
Additionally, the translated expression for the unary + operator would be
considered as arithmetic expression with an incompatible left-hand side:
> error TS2362: The left-hand side of an arithmetic operation must be of
type 'any', 'number', 'bigint' or an enum type.
To resolve this issues, the implicit transformation should be avoided.
This commit adds a new unary AST node to represent these expressions,
allowing for more accurate type-checking.
Fixes#20845Fixes#36178
PR Close#37918
We had a couple of places where we were assuming that if a particular
symbol has a value, then it will exist at runtime. This is true in most cases,
but it breaks down for `const` enums.
Fixes#38513.
PR Close#38542
This commit adds a `getTemplateOfComponent` method to the
`TemplateTypeChecker` API, which retrieves the actual nodes parsed and used
by the compiler for template type-checking. This is advantageous for the
language service, which may need to query other APIs in
`TemplateTypeChecker` that require the same nodes used to bind the template
while generating the TCB.
Fixes#38352
PR Close#38355
Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection
capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through
delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output.
More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue
outlining the problem: #38453.
Fixes#38453.
PR Close#38463
This commit updates the code to move generated i18n statements into the `consts` field of
ComponentDef to avoid invoking `$localize` function before component initialization (to better
support runtime translations) and also avoid problems with lazy-loading when i18n defs may not
be present in a chunk where it's referenced.
Prior to this change the i18n statements were generated at the top leve:
```
var I18N_0;
if (typeof ngI18nClosureMode !== "undefined" && ngI18nClosureMode) {
var MSG_X = goog.getMsg(“…”);
I18N_0 = MSG_X;
} else {
I18N_0 = $localize('...');
}
defineComponent({
// ...
template: function App_Template(rf, ctx) {
i0.ɵɵi18n(2, I18N_0);
}
});
```
This commit updates the logic to generate the following code instead:
```
defineComponent({
// ...
consts: function() {
var I18N_0;
if (typeof ngI18nClosureMode !== "undefined" && ngI18nClosureMode) {
var MSG_X = goog.getMsg(“…”);
I18N_0 = MSG_X;
} else {
I18N_0 = $localize('...');
}
return [
I18N_0
];
},
template: function App_Template(rf, ctx) {
i0.ɵɵi18n(2, 0);
}
});
```
Also note that i18n template instructions now refer to the `consts` array using an index
(similar to other template instructions).
PR Close#38404
For a template that contains for example `<span *ngIf="first"></span>`
there's no need to render the `NgIf` guard expression, as the child
scope does not have any type-checking statements, so any narrowing
effect of the guard is not applicable.
This seems like a minor improvement, however it reduces the number of
flow-node antecedents that TypeScript needs to keep into account for
such cases, resulting in an overall reduction of type-checking time.
PR Close#38418
The template type-checker would always generate a directive declaration
even if its type was never used. For example, directives without any
input nor output bindings nor exportAs references don't need the
directive to be declared, as its type would never be used.
This commit makes the `TcbOp`s that are responsible for declaring a
directive as optional, such that they are only executed when requested
from another operation.
PR Close#38418
The template type-checker would generate a statement with a call
expression for all DOM elements in a template of the form:
```
const _t1 = document.createElement("div");
```
Profiling has shown that this is a particularly expensive call to
perform type inference on, as TypeScript needs to perform signature
selection of `Document.createElement` and resolve the exact type from
the `HTMLElementTagNameMap`. However, it can be observed that the
statement by itself does not contribute anything to the type-checking
result if `_t1` is not actually used anywhere, which is only rarely the
case---it requires that the element is referenced by its name from
somewhere else in the template. Consequently, the type-checker can skip
generating this statement altogether for most DOM elements.
The effect of this optimization is significant in several phases:
1. Less type-check code to generate
2. Less type-check code to emit and parse again
3. No expensive type inference to perform for the call expression
The effect on phase 3 is the most significant here, as type-checking is
not currently incremental in the sense that only phases 1 and 2 can
be reused from a prior compilation. The actual type-checking of all
templates in phase 3 needs to be repeated on each incremental
compilation, so any performance gains we achieve here are very
beneficial.
PR Close#38418
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
