In #37221 we disabled tsickle passes from transforming the tsc output that is used to publish all
Angular framework and components packages (@angular/*).
This change however revealed a bug in the ngc that caused __decorate and __metadata calls to still
be emitted in the JS code even though we don't depend on them.
Additionally it was these calls that caused code in @angular/material packages to fail at runtime
due to circular dependency in the emitted decorator code documeted as
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27519.
This change partially rolls back #37221 by reenabling the decorator to static fields (static
properties) downleveling.
This is just a temporary workaround while we are also fixing root cause in `ngc` - tracked as
FW-2199.
Resolves FW-2198.
Related to FW-2196
PR Close#37317
As of TypeScript 3.9, the tsc emit is not compatible with Closure
Compiler due to
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/32011.
There is some hope that this will be fixed by a solution like the one
proposed in
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/38374 but currently it's
unclear if / when that will
happen.
Since the Closure support has been somewhat already broken, and the
tsickle pass has been a source
of headaches for some time for Angular packages, we are removing it for
now while we rethink our
strategy to make Angular Closure compatible outside of Google.
This change has no effect on our Closure compatibility within Google
which work well because all the
code is compiled from sources and passed through tsickle.
This change only disables the tsickle pass but doesn't remove it.
A follow up PR should either remove all the traces of tscikle or
re-enable the fixed version.
BREAKING CHANGE: Angular npm packages no longer contain jsdoc comments
to support Closure Compiler's advanced optimizations
The support for Closure compiler in Angular packages has been
experimental and broken for quite some
time.
As of TS3.9 Closure is unusable with the JavaScript emit. Please follow
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/38374 for more
information and updates.
If you used Closure compiler with Angular in the past, you will likely
be better off consuming
Angular packages built from sources directly rather than consuming the
version we publish on npm
which is primarily optimized for Webpack/Rollup + Terser build pipeline.
As a temporary workaround you might consider using your current build
pipeline with Closure flag
`--compilation_level=SIMPLE`. This flag will ensure that your build
pipeline produces buildable and
runnable artifacts, at the cost of increased payload size due to
advanced optimizations being disabled.
If you were affected by this change, please help us understand your
needs by leaving a comment on https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/37234.
PR Close#37221
As of version 10, libraries following the APF will no longer contain
ESM5 output. Hence, tests in ngcc need to be updated as they currently
rely on the release output of `@angular/core`.
Additionally, we'd need to support in ngcc that the `module`
property of entry-points no longer necessarily refers to
`esm5` output, but instead can also target `esm2015`.
We currently achieve this by checking the path the `module`
property points to. We can do this because as per APF, the
folder name is known for the esm2015 output. Long-term for
more coverage, we want to sniff the format by looking for
known ES2015 constructs in the file `module` refers to.
PR Close#36944
The commit adds support to the ngcc.config.js file for setting the
`retryAttempts` and `retryDelay` options for the `AsyncLocker`.
An integration test adds a new check for a timeout and actually uses the
ngcc.config.js to reduce the timeout time to prevent the test from taking
too long to complete.
PR Close#36838
The cached file-system was implemented to speed up ngcc
processing, but in reality most files are not accessed many times
and there is no noticeable degradation in speed by removing it.
Benchmarking `ngcc -l debug` for AIO on a local machine
gave a range of 196-236 seconds with the cache and 197-224
seconds without the cache.
Moreover, when running in parallel mode, ngcc has a separate
file cache for each process. This results in excess memory usage.
Notably the master process, which only does analysis of entry-points
holds on to up to 500Mb for AIO when using the cache compared to
only around 30Mb when not using the cache.
Finally, the file-system cache being incorrectly primed with file
contents before being processed has been the cause of a number
of bugs. For example https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/16860#issuecomment-614694269.
PR Close#36687
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
* it's tricky to get out of the runfiles tree with `bazel test` as `BUILD_WORKSPACE_DIRECTORY` is not set but I employed a trick to read the `DO_NOT_BUILD_HERE` file that is one level up from `execroot` and that contains the workspace directory. This is experimental and if `bazel test //:test.debug` fails than `bazel run` is still guaranteed to work as `BUILD_WORKSPACE_DIRECTORY` will be set in that context
* test //integration:bazel_test and //integration:bazel-schematics_test exclusively
* run "exclusive" and "manual" bazel-in-bazel integration tests in their own CI job as they take 8m+ to execute
```
//integration:bazel-schematics_test PASSED in 317.2s
//integration:bazel_test PASSED in 167.8s
```
* Skip all integration tests that are now handled by angular_integration_test except the tests that are tracked for payload size; these are:
- cli-hello-world*
- hello_world__closure
* add & pin @babel deps as newer versions of babel break //packages/localize/src/tools/test:test
@babel/core dep had to be pinned to 7.6.4 or else //packages/localize/src/tools/test:test failed. Also //packages/localize uses @babel/generator, @babel/template, @babel/traverse & @babel/types so these deps were added to package.json as they were not being hoisted anymore from @babel/core transitive.
NB: integration/hello_world__systemjs_umd test must run with systemjs 0.20.0
NB: systemjs must be at 0.18.10 for legacy saucelabs job to pass
NB: With Bazel 2.0, the glob for the files to test `"integration/bazel/**"` is empty if integation/bazel is in .bazelignore. This glob worked under these conditions with 1.1.0. I did not bother testing with 1.2.x as not having integration/bazel in .bazelignore is correct.
PR Close#33927
Previously, while trying to build an `NgccReflectionHost`'s
`privateDtsDeclarationMap`, `computePrivateDtsDeclarationMap()` would
try to collect exported declarations from all source files of the
program (i.e. without checking whether they were within the target
package, as happens for declarations in `.d.ts` files).
Most of the time, that would not be a problem, because external packages
would be represented as `.d.ts` files in the program. But when an
external package had no typings, the JS files would be used instead. As
a result, the `ReflectionHost` would try to (unnecessarilly) parse the
file in order to extract exported declarations, which in turn would be
harmless in most cases.
There are certain cases, though, where the `ReflectionHost` would throw
an error, because it cannot parse the external package's JS file. This
could happen, for example, in `UmdReflectionHost`, which expects the
file to contain exactly one statement. See #34544 for more details on a
real-world failure.
This commit fixes the issue by ensuring that
`computePrivateDtsDeclarationMap()` will only collect exported
declarations from files within the target package.
Jira issue: [FW-1794](https://angular-team.atlassian.net/browse/FW-1794)
Fixes#34544
PR Close#34811
Previously, if `UmdRenderingFormatter#addImports()` was called with an
empty list of imports to add (i.e. no new imports were needed), it would
add trailing commas in several locations (arrays, function arguments,
function parameters), thus making the code imcompatible with legacy
browsers such as IE11.
This commit fixes it by ensuring that no trailing commas are added if
`addImports()` is called with an empty list of imports.
This is a follow-up to #34353.
Fixes#34525
PR Close#34545
This commit updates `@angular/material` and `@angular/cdk` to the
latest release candidate. Doing so exposed a bug in ngcc, which is fixed
by the preceding commit. Also the layout of these libraries changed, so
the checks in the integration test need a bit of tweaking.
PR Close#34212
Previously, ngcc's `Renderer` would add some constants in the processed
files which were emitted as ES2015 code (e.g. `const` declarations).
This would result in invalid ES5 generated code that would break when
run on browsers that do not support the emitted format.
This commit fixes it by adding a `printStatement()` method to
`RenderingFormatter`, which can convert statements to JavaScript code in
a suitable format for the corresponding `RenderingFormatter`.
Additionally, the `translateExpression()` and `translateStatement()`
ngtsc helper methods are augmented to accept an extra hint to know
whether the code needs to be translated to ES5 format or not.
Fixes#32665
PR Close#33514
Removes `ngBaseDef` from the compiler and any runtime code that was still referring to it. In the cases where we'd previously generate a base def we now generate a definition for an abstract directive.
PR Close#33264
Injector 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
ngInjectorDef to 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
Module 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
ngModuleDef to mod. 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#33142
Previously, the executable for the Angular Compatibility Compiler
(`ngcc`) was called `ivy-ngcc`. This would be confusing for users not
familiar with our internal terminology, especially given that we call it
`ngcc` in all our docs and presentations.
This commit renames the executable to `ngcc` and replaces `ivy-ngcc`
with a script that errors with an informative message (prompting the
user to use `ngcc` instead).
Jira issue: [FW-1624](https://angular-team.atlassian.net/browse/FW-1624)
PR Close#33140
`ngcc` supports both synchronous and asynchronous execution. The default
mode when using `ngcc` programmatically (which is how `@angular/cli` is
using it) is synchronous. When running `ngcc` from the command line
(i.e. via the `ivy-ngcc` script), it runs in async mode.
Previously, the work would be executed in the same way in both modes.
This commit improves the performance of `ngcc` in async mode by
processing tasks in parallel on multiple processes. It uses the Node.js
built-in [`cluster` module](https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html) to
launch a cluster of Node.js processes and take advantage of multi-core
systems.
Preliminary comparisons indicate a 1.8x to 2.6x speed improvement when
processing the angular.io app (apparently depending on the OS, number of
available cores, system load, etc.). Further investigation is needed to
better understand these numbers and identify potential areas of
improvement.
Inspired by/Based on @alxhub's prototype: alxhub/angular@cb631bdb1
Original design doc: https://hackmd.io/uYG9CJrFQZ-6FtKqpnYJAA?view
Jira issue: [FW-1460](https://angular-team.atlassian.net/browse/FW-1460)
PR Close#32427
In #31426 a fix was implemented to render namespaced decorator imports
correctly, however it turns out that the fix only worked when decorator
information was extracted from static properties, not when using
`__decorate` calls.
This commit fixes the issue by creating the decorator metadata with the
full decorator expression, instead of only its name.
Closes#31394
PR Close#31614
The support for decorators that were imported via a namespace,
e.g. `import * as core from `@angular/core` was implemented
piecemeal. This meant that it was easy to miss situations where
a decorator identifier needed to be handled as a namepsaced
import rather than a direct import.
One such issue was that UMD processing of decorators was not
correct: the namespace was being omitted from references to
decorators.
Now the types have been modified to make it clear that a
`Decorator.identifier` could hold a namespaced identifier,
and the corresponding code that uses these types has been
fixed.
Fixes#31394
PR Close#31426
Currently undecorated classes are intentionally not processed
with ngcc. This is causing unexpected behavior because decorator
handlers such as `base_def.ts` are specifically interested in class
definitions without top-level decorators, so that the base definition
can be generated if there are Angular-specific class members.
In order to ensure that undecorated base-classes work as expected
with Ivy, we need to run the decorator handlers for all top-level
class declarations (not only for those with decorators). This is similar
to when `ngtsc` runs decorator handlers when analyzing source-files.
Resolves FW-1355. Fixes https://github.com/angular/components/issues/16178
PR Close#30821
When ngcc processes an entrypoint, it updates `package.json` with
metadata about the processed format. Previously, it overwrote the
`package.json` with the stringified JSON object without spaces. This
made the file difficult to read (for example when looking at the file
while debugging an ngcc failure).
This commit fixes it by using spaces in the new `package.json` content.
PR Close#30831
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
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
If `targetEntryPointPath` is provided to `mainNgcc` then we will now mark all
the `propertiesToConsider` for that entry-point if we determine that
it does not contain code that was compiled by Angular (for instance it has
no `...metadata.json` file).
The commit also renames `__modified_by_ngcc__` to `__processed_by_ivy_ngcc__`, since
there may be entry-points that are marked despite ngcc not actually compiling anything.
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
A constructor function may have been "synthesized" by TypeScript during
JavaScript emit, in the case no user-defined constructor exists and e.g.
property initializers are used. Those initializers need to be emitted
into a constructor in JavaScript, so the TypeScript compiler generates a
synthetic constructor.
This commit adds identification of such constructors as ngcc needs to be
able to tell if a class did originally have a constructor in the
TypeScript source. When a class has a superclass, a synthesized
constructor must not be considered as a user-defined constructor as that
prevents a base factory call from being created by ngtsc, resulting in a
factory function that does not inject the dependencies of the superclass.
Hence, we identify a default synthesized super call in the constructor
body, according to the structure that TypeScript emits.
PR Close#27897
When ngtsc compiles @angular/core, it rewrites core imports to the
r3_symbols.ts file that exposes all internal symbols under their
external name. When creating the FESM bundle, the r3_symbols.ts file
causes the external symbol names to be rewritten to their internal name.
Under ngcc compilations of FESM bundles, the indirection of
r3_symbols.ts is no longer in place such that the external names are
retained in the bundle. Previously, the external name `ɵdefineNgModule`
was explicitly declared internally to resolve this issue, but the
recently added `setClassMetadata` was not declared as such, causing
runtime errors.
Instead of relying on the r3_symbols.ts file to perform the rewrite of
the external modules to their internal variants, the translation is
moved into the `ImportManager` during the compilation itself. This
avoids the need for providing the external name manually.
PR Close#27055
* rename test helper script
* add material to the ngcc integration test
* add MatButton to ngcc integration test checks
* remove platform-server from ngcc integration test
This package does not yet compile as it contains a package-private
(internal) decorated class, which the ngcc compiler does not yet
handle.
PR Close#26403
Originally, the ivy_switch mechanism used Bazel genrules to conditionally
compile one TS file or another depending on whether ngc or ngtsc was the
selected compiler. This was done because we wanted to avoid importing
certain modules (and thus pulling them into the build) if Ivy was on or
off. This mechanism had a major drawback: ivy_switch became a bottleneck
in the import graph, as it both imports from many places in the codebase
and is imported by many modules in the codebase. This frequently resulted
in cyclic imports which caused issues both with TS and Closure compilation.
It turns out ngcc needs both code paths in the bundle to perform the switch
during its operation anyway, so import switching was later abandoned. This
means that there's no real reason why the ivy_switch mechanism needed to
operate at the Bazel level, and for the ivy_switch file to be a bottleneck.
This commit removes the Bazel-level ivy_switch mechanism, and introduces
an additional TypeScript transform in ngtsc (and the pass-through tsc
compiler used for testing JIT) to perform the same operation that ngcc
does, and flip the switch during ngtsc compilation. This allows the
ivy_switch file to be removed, and the individual switches to be located
directly next to their consumers in the codebase, greatly mitigating the
circular import issues and making the mechanism much easier to use.
As part of this commit, the tag for marking switched variables was changed
from __PRE_NGCC__ to __PRE_R3__, since it's no longer just ngcc which
flips these tags. Most variables were renamed from R3_* to SWITCH_* as well,
since they're referenced mostly in render2 code.
Test strategy: existing test coverage is more than sufficient - if this
didn't work correctly it would break the hello world and todo apps.
PR Close#26550
`ngcc` adds marker files to each folder that has been
compiled, containing the version of the ngcc used.
When compiling, it will ignore folders that contain these
marker files, as long as the version matches.
PR Close#25557
This commit adds an integration test for ngcc, which runs ngcc
against most @angular packages. It does not yet make any assertions
on the result.
PR Close#25406