When the zoneless scheduler is provided, we want to update the behavior
of `ComponentFixture` to address common issues and painpoints in testing.
Developers should never have to call `detectChanges` on a fixture
manually. Instead of calling `detectChanges` after performing an
action that updates state and requies a template refresh, developers
should wait for change detection to run because the update needs to also have
notified the scheduler. If this was not the case, the component would
not work correctly in the application. Calling `detectChanges` to force
an update could hide real bugs.
This commit also updates the zoneless tests to uses `ComponentFixture`
instead of manually attaching to the `ApplicationRef` and rewriting a
lot of the helpers (`getDebugNode`, `isStable` as a value, `whenStable` as a
Promise).
PR Close#54024
Prior to this commit, `TestBed` would require tests call `flushEffects`
or `fixture.detectChanges` in order to execute effects. In general, we
want to discourage authoring tests like this because it makes the timing
of change detection and effects differ from what happens in the
application. Instead, developers should perform actions and `await` (or
`flush`/`tick` when using `fakeAsync`) some `Promise` so that Angular
can react to the changes in the same way that it does in the
application.
Note that this still _allows_ developers to flush effects synchronously
with `flushEffects` and `detectChanges` but also enables the <action>,
`await` pattern described above.
PR Close#53843
The `afterRender` hooks currently run after `ApplicationRef.tick` but
also run after any call to `ChangeDetectorRef.detectChanges`. This is
problematic because code which uses `afterRender` cannot expect the
component it's registered from to be rendered when the callback
executes. If there is a call to `ChangeDetectorRef.detectChanges` before
the global change detection, that will cause the hooks to run earlier
than expected.
This behavior is somewhat of a blocker for the zoneless project. There
is plenty of application code that do things like `setTimeout(() =>
doSomethingThatExpectsComponentToBeRendered())`, `NgZone.onStable(() =>
...)` or `ApplicationRef.onStable...`. `ApplicationRef.onStable` is a
should likely work similarly, but all of these are really wanting an API
that is `afterRender` with the requirement that the hook runs after the
global render, not an individual CDRef instance.
This change updates the `afterRender` hooks to only run when
`ApplicationRef.tick` happens.
fixes#52429fixes#53232
PR Close#52455
The `ComponentFixture` code needlessly dances around the `ngZone` being
`null` when the `ComponentFixtureNoNgZone` option is set. Instead, it
can use the `NoopNgZone` to get the same effect without needing to have
checks all over the place for its presence.
PR Close#53670
The component fixture dependencies have to be passed in manually. This
is a bit annoying to manage as we expand which dependencies are needed.
Instead, we can run the constructor in the TestBed injection context and
move the dependencies into the component fixture code, as is done with
other constructors in Angular.
PR Close#53400
This commit updates the logic to preserve previous value of cached TView before applying overrides. This helps ensure that the next tests that uses the same component has correct provider info.
PR Close#52918
Currently, when a component is overriden using `TestBed.overrideComponent`, Angular retains calculated scope for that component (a set of components and directives used within a component). This may cause stale information to be used in tests in some cases. This commit updates the logic to reset overridden component scope, so it gets re-computed during the next invocation.
Resolves#52817.
PR Close#52916
When a component contains `@defer` blocks, Angular compiler generates the code to apply component metadata (from the `@Component` decorator) after resolving all dynamic dependencies. Currently, this function is invoked eagerly at runtime, which causes dynamic imports to be kicked off earlier than expected. With the change in this commit, Angular will start resolving async metadata when it becomes necessary during testing.
PR Close#52708
When an effect is created in a component constructor, it might read signals
which are derived from component inputs. These signals may be unreliable or
(in the case of the proposed input signals) may throw if accessed before the
component is first change detected (which is what makes required inputs
available).
Depending on the scenario involved, the effect may or may not run before
this initialization takes place, which isn't a great developer experience.
In particular, effects created during CD (e.g. via control flow) work fine,
as do effects created in bootstrap thanks to the sync CD it performs. When
an effect is created through dynamic component creation outside of CD though
(such as on router navigations), it runs before the component is first CD'd,
causing the issue.
In fact, in the signal components RFC we described how effects would wait
until ngOnInit for their first execution for exactly this reason, but this
behavior was never implemented as it was thought our effect scheduling
design made it unnecessary. This is true of the regular execution of effects
but the above scenario shows that *creation* of the effect is still
vulnerable. Thus, this logic is needed.
This commit makes effects sensitive to their creation context, by injecting
`ChangeDetectorRef` optionally. An effect created with an injector that's
tied to a component will wait until that component is initialized before
initially being scheduled. TestBed effect flushing is also adjusted to
account for the additional interaction with change detection.
PR Close#52473
The `ViewRef<T>` interface extends `InternalViewRef` and is already not
part of the public API. There is no need for the extra `InternalViewRef`
interface. This confusing setup is likely leftover from the types
necessary to support both Ivy and ViewEngine.
PR Close#52430
This commit updates the logic to ignore `after` and `minimum` conditions when `DeferBlockFixture.render` method is used in tests.
Resolves#52313.
PR Close#52314
This commit adds the logic to cleanup all triggers once defer block is triggered.
When a trigger is created, its cleanup function is stored alongside other defer block info. Prefetch and regular triggers are store in different slots, since we need to invoke them at different time.
PR Close#52291
This adds `generate_api_docs` targets to all of the packages for which we publish api reference docs. One known issue here is that any type information that comes from another package (e.g. router depending on core) currently resolve to `any` because the other sources are not available in the program. This can be tackled in a follow-up commit.
This commit also updates the install patch for `@angular/build-tools` to use the local version of compiler-cli.
PR Close#52034
Switches the syntax for blocks from `{#block}{/block}` to `@block {}` based on the feedback from the community.
Read more about the decision-making process in our blog: https://blog.angular.io/meet-angulars-new-control-flow-a02c6eee7843
The existing block types changed in the following ways:
**Conditional blocks:**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#if cond}
Main content
{:else if otherCond}
Else if content
{:else}
Else content
{/if}
<!-- After -->
@if (cond) {
Main content
} @else if (otherCond) {
Else if content
} @else {
Else content
}
```
**Deferred blocks**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#defer when isLoaded}
Main content
{:loading} Loading...
{:placeholder} <icon>pending</icon>
{:error} Failed to load
{/defer}
<!-- After -->
@defer (when isLoaded) {
Main content
} @loading {
Loading...
} @placeholder {
<icon>pending</icon>
} @error {
Failed to load
}
```
**Switch blocks:**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#switch value}
{:case 1}
One
{:case 2}
Two
{:default}
Default
{/switch}
<!-- After -->
@switch (value) {
@case (1) {
One
}
@case (2) {
Two
}
@default {
Default
}
}
```
**For loops**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#for item of items; track item}
{{item.name}}
{:empty} No items
{/for}
<!-- After -->
@for (item of items; track item) {
{{item.name}}
} @empty {
No items
}
```
PR Close#51891
Adds support for passing in `@Component.styles` as a string. Also introduces a new `styleUrl` property on `@Component` for providing a single stylesheet. This is more convenient for the most common case where a component only has one stylesheet associated with it.
PR Close#51715
Previously effects were queued as they became dirty, and this queue was
flushed at various checkpoints during the change detection cycle. The result
was that change detection _was_ the effect runner, and without executing CD,
effects would not execute. This leads a particular tradeoff:
* effects are subject to unidirectional data flow (bad for dx)
* effects don't cause a new round of CD (good/bad depending on use case)
* effects can be used to implement control flow efficiently (desirable)
This commit changes the scheduling mechanism. Effects are now scheduled via
the microtask queue. This changes the tradeoffs:
* effects are no longer limited by unidirectional data flow (easy dx)
* effects registered in the Angular zone will trigger CD after they run
(same as `Promise.resolve` really)
* the public `effect()` type of effect probably isn't a good building block
for our built-in control flow, and we'll need a new internal abstraction.
As `effect()` is in developer preview, changing the execution timing is not
considered breaking even though it may impact current users.
PR Close#51049
Fixes that there was code duplication between the primary entry-point,
the testing entry-point and the rxjs-interop entry-point.
This code duplication resulted in additional code size (really
neglibible here because rxjs-interop did not duplicate large parts of
core, and `testing` is not used in production).
On the other hand though, the duplication resulted in a subtle JIT
dependency tracking issue due to the `depsTracker` no longer being a
singleton. This caused test failures as in:
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/51415.
PR Close#51500
This commit updates TestBed to wait for async component metadata resolution before compiling components.
Async metadata is added by the compiler in case a component uses defer blocks, which contain deferrable
symbols.
PR Close#51182
The current change is done behind a flag which is set to false. So no change in code path took place here. In a followup PR the flag is changed to true which will make the actual change.
PR Close#51122
Angular doesn't support IE anymore. We can remove the workarounds related to IE.
Some workarounds are keep because of the support of domino but the comments related to IE are removed.
PR Close#49763
This commit adds a provider function that allows developers to configure
the `NgZone` instance for the application. In the future, this provider
will be used for applications to specifically opt-in to change detection
powered by ZoneJS rather than it being provided by default.
This API does _not_ specifically provide support for developers to define their own
`NgZone` implementation or opt in to `NoopNgZone` directly. Both of
these are possible today, but are effectively unsupported (applications
that use these are left to their own devices to run change detection at
the appropriate times). That said, developers can still use DI in
`bootstrapApplication` to provide an `NgZone` implementation instead,
it's just not specifically available in the
`provideZoneChangeDetection` function.
PR Close#49557
When having a recursive circle of imports on standalone components, `queueTypesFromModulesArrayRecur` triggered a `Maximum call stack size exceeded` error.
This commit fixes this.
Fixes#49469
PR Close#49473
This commit moves the providers for `NgZone`-based change detection to a
single provider function. This function is currently called by default
in all places where `NgZone` was provided
(`bootstrapApplication`, `bootstrapModule`, and `TestBed`).
When we want to make Angular applications zoneless by default, we
can make a public provider method that has to be used in order to enable
the zone change detection features. When this method is not called,
Angular would use `NoopNgZone` by default and not initialize any
subscriptions to the `NgZone` stability events.
Side note: There are actually two places that `NgZone` is provided for `TestBed`
(providers in `compileTestModule` and `BrowserTestingModule`). This
likely doesn't need to be in both locations.
PR Close#49373
TestBed.overrideProvider should include `multi` support in its type. The
underlying implementation already supports it, as documented by the
tests which are currently casting the override to `any` to get around
the bad type.
PR Close#48424
This commit adds `TestBed.runInInjectionContext` which is equivalent to
`TestBed.inject(EnvironmentInjector).runInContext`. This function will
help make tests for functions which call `inject` from `@angular/core` a
little bit less verbose.
PR Close#47955
This commit modifies `R3Injector` and other code in Angular that deals with
providers, to handle `EnvironmentProviders` objects as well as normal
`Provider` types. There is no user-visible impact to this change, but it
prepares the core of the DI system for the introduction of
`EnvironmentProviders` as a public feature.
PR Close#47669
This commit applies the changes similar to the ones performed for the `inject()` function in df246bb235.
The `TestBed.inject` function is updated to use previously added object-based API for options: now the flags argument supports passing an object which configures injection flags.
DEPRECATED:
The bit field signature of `TestBed.inject()` has been deprecated, in favor of the new options object.
PR Close#46761
