Similar to signal-based inputs, we support signal-based queries in JIT
by expecting a decorator to be added. This is a consequence of the
design, given that JIT requires query declaration information before
the class is initialized- but ironically there is no way to collect this
information without instantiating the class.
A JIT transform in the Angular CLI will automatically generate these
decorators for testing.
PR Close#54019
While `Array.at` is technically supported in all browsers we officially
support, the change was needlessly breaking without any real benefit.
PR Close#54021
Node removal is immediate and does not require change detection to run
when animations are not provided. This refactor makes the animation
engine notify the scheduler rather than doing it on all node removals.
PR Close#53857
The new type testing infrastructure was introduced for the input-as-signals
authoring functions. This commit modifies this infrastructure to make it more
generic and support queries-as-signals.
PR Close#53829
This commit splits the query implementation and instructions
into a separate files. This is a pattern frequently used by
other functional areas of the framework and is a preparation for
introducing queries-as-signals where we are going to see more
instructions delegating to the same core functionality.
PR Close#53922
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
Enables signal inputs for existing Zone based components.
This is a next step we are taking to bring signal inputs earlier to the Angular community.
The goal is to enable early access for the ecosystem to signal inputs, while we are continuing
development of full signal components as outlined in the RFC. This will allow the ecosystem
to start integrating signals more deeply, prepare for future migrations, and improves code quality
and DX for existing components (especially for OnPush).
Based on our work on full signal components, we've gathered more information and learned
new things. We've improved the API by introducing a way to intuitively declare required inputs,
as well as improved the API around initial values. We even support non-primitive initial values
as the first argument to the `input` function now.
```ts
@Directive({..})
export class MyDir {
firstName = input<string>(); // string|undefined
lastName = input.required<string>(); // string
age = input(0); // number
```
PR Close#53872
This allows us to ensure signal inputs and a potential JIT transform
remain single file compilation compatible. The consequences are that
options need to be statically analyzable more strictly, compared to
loosened restrictions with static interpretation where e.g. `alias`
can be defined through a shared variable.
PR Close#53872
Adds infrastructure to run signal input tests with JIT (using the
transform) and AOT. Acceptance tests for signal inputs will run with
both variants. In the future we can consider expanding this
infrastructure for all of our acceptance tests, but that's a different
story.
PR Close#53808
This commit creates a small http server Angular application playground
for playing with signal inputs. This is useful for development and also
validates some of the common input patterns.
PR Close#53808
This commit changes the `HasTransform` flag to be only concerned with
decorator inputs. This allows us to automatically detect signal input
transforms without reliance on the flag, resulting in less complexity in
the compiler (as outlined in the design doc) and various other places,
while it also allows us to simplify JIT support for signal inputs
because there would be no need to capture the "hasTransform" state in
the decorator so that JIT can generate the according input flags.
`isSignal` will still persist as an input flag to allow for monomorphic
and highly efficient distinguishing at runtime, whether an input is
signal based or not. JIT transform will also need to propagate this
information to the runtime somehow.
PR Close#53808
This commit moves the implementation of the change detection scheduler
used for testing to angular/core along with a (private export) provider function.
Note: Naming of the provider function is absolutely not final (and not
public API). I would prefer one that did not mention "zones"
but the easiest thing for now is to have a "Zone" and "Zoneless" naming
scheme.
PR Close#53579
This commit removes the testability features that are internal only.
This simplifies the implementation of testability which will need
updates to support zoneless. Those updates will be easier to manage if
the Testability implementation is simpler.
While protractor is indeed officially EOL, we will still need to do some
updates to support teams migrating to zoneless that have protractor
tests.
As far as protractor's own use of `whenStable`, it does not read the
internal only methods either:
https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/clientsidescripts.js
Anything else depending on these values are not following the defined public API
contract.
PR Close#53767
We generate `advance` instructions before most update instructions and the majority of `advance` calls are advancing by one. We can save some bytes for the most common case by omitting the parameter for `advance(1)` altogether.
PR Close#53845
This PR provides strict type definition for the window.ng object used
for both console debugging and devtools. `GlobalDevModeUtils` now
gathers all type information about all methods exposed on window.ng.
PR Close#53439
This commit ensures that change detection runs when an `LView` is
removed. Change detection is required because DOM nodes aren't actually
removed until the animation engine flushes and this doesn't happen until
the end of `detectChangesInternal` (`rendererFactory.end`).
PR Close#53812
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
This commit removes a hack that deletes `Event` from the global context
when using domino. Instead, it sets the global event to domino's
implementation of `Event`.
PR Close#53659
Adds tests that allow us to ensure that the `input` API works as
expected and that resulting return types match our expectations- without
silently regressing in the future, or missing potential edge-cases.
Testing signatures is hard because of covariance and contravariance,
especially when it comes to the different semantics of `ReadT` and
`WriteT` of input signals. We enable reliable testing by validating the
`d.ts` of the "fake directive class". This ensures clear results,
compared to relying on e.g. type assertions that might
accidentally/silently pass due to covariance/contravariance or
biavariance in the type system.
PR Close#53571
This commit introduces a new enum for capturing additional metadata
about inputs. Called `InputFlags`. These will be built up at compile
time and then propagated into the runtime logic, in a way that does
not require additional lookup dictionaries data structures, or
additional memory allocations for "common inputs" that do not have any flags.
The flags will incorporate information on whether an input is signal
based. This can then be used to avoid megamorphic accesses when such
input is set- as we'd not need to check the input field value. This also
avoids cases where an input signal may be used as initial value for an
input (as we'd not incorrectly detect the input as a signal input then).
The new metadata emit will be useful for incorporating additional
metadata for inputs, such as whether they are required etc (although
required inputs are a build-time only construct right now- but this is a
good illustration of why input flags can be useful). An alternative
could have been to have an additional boolean entry for signal inputs,
but allocating a number with more flexible input flags seems more future
proof and more reasonable andreadable.
More information on the megamorphic access when updating an input
signal
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FpnFruviKb6BFTQfMAP2AMEqEB0FI7z-3mT_qm7lzX8/edit.
PR Close#53571
Currently when a base class defines an input with a transform, derived
classes re-defining the input via `@Input`, or `inputs: [<..>]`, end up
inherting the transform due to a bug in the inherit definitions feature.
This commit fixes this. We verified in the Google codebase that this is
an unlikely occurrence and it's trivial to fix on user side by removing
the re-declaration/override, or explictly adding the necessary
transform.
Conceptually, the behavior was quite inconsistent as everything else of
inputs was overridden as expected. i.e. alias, required state etc. The
exception were input transforms. This commit fixes this.
PR Close#53571
At this point, we have the following pieces in place:
* the input signature is implemented
* the compiler properly parses and recognizes signal inputs
* the compiler supports type-checking of signal inputs
* input signal metadata is passed to partial output
This commit adds a naive runtime solution to distinguishing between
signal inputs and decorator inputs when the `property` instruction
invokes. This is not ideal and non-performant as we introduce additional
megamorphic reads for every property instruction invocation, or if we'd
use `instanceof`, introducing a hard dependency on `InputSignal` and
risking potentially slower detection.
This code exists purely for testing, to enable playing with input
signals in the playground. In a future commit, we will pass around the
input signal metadata at runtime and can perform highly optimized checks
to distinguish between signal or non-signal inputs- when assigning
values.
More information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FpnFruviKb6BFTQfMAP2AMEqEB0FI7z-3mT_qm7lzX8/edit#heading=h.oloxympe902x
PR Close#53571
This commit introduces the runtime `InputSignal` implementation.
Input initializers using `input` or `input.required` will result in
an instance of `InputSignal` to be created.
An input signal extends the signal primtive, with a couple of small
differences:
- it's a readonly signal. There is no public `set` or `update`.
- equality is non-configurable. As per CD semantics, the value is
guaranteed to be different when the `property` instruction attempts
to update an input signal.
- we support a `transform` function, that allows transforming input
values. The transform is called whenever the input is set. An
alternative could have been to follow computed-semantics and call the
transform upon accessing, if dirty.
In the future, we might change this to extend the computed reactive
node, so that we can support computed inputs that do not rely on
continious bound value assignments. See signal based components RFC.
PR Close#53571
`effect` was expecting an `ErrorHandler` in its constructor which can lead to a circular DI error if an effect is used inside a custom `ErrorHandler`. These changes inject the `ErrorHandler` only when reporting errors.
Fixes#52680.
PR Close#53713
In order to provide a reasonable experience for Angular without Zones,
we need a mechanism to run change detection when we receive a change
notification. There are several existing APIs today that serve as the
change notification: `ChangeDetectorRef.markForCheck`, signal updates,
event listeners (since they mark the view dirty), and attaching a view to
either the `ApplicationRef` or `ChangeDetectorRef`. These operations
are now paired with a notification to the change detection scheduler.
The concrete implementation for this scheduler is still being designed.
However, this gives us a starting point to partner with teams to
experiment with what that might look like.
PR Close#53499
This commit updates the `ApplicationRef.isStable` implementation to use
a single `Observable` to manage the state. This simplifies the mental
model quite a bit and removes the need for rx operators like
`distinctUntilChanged` and `combineLatest`.
PR Close#53576
When an application does not use zones, it does not need a default value
for the zone stableness token. This will allow zoneless applications to
tree-shake a lot of rxjs operators out of `ApplicationRef`.
Note that at the moment, `provideZoneChangeDetection` is included in all
applications as well as the `TestBed` environment. It is not currently
possible to remove the zone stable code as a result. This will be
possible only when we make zones an opt-in rather than opt-out.
PR Close#53505
The InitialRenderPendingTasks currently attempts to only contribute to
ApplicationRef stableness one time to support SSR. This isn't actually
how the switchMap works in reality. This commit updates
the isStable observable to be more clear that it's always a combination
of the zone stableness and pending tasks.
In addition, this commit renames the service to just be PendingTasks
because it doesn't directly relate to rendering. While the purpose is
to track things that might cause rendering to happen, we don't know if the
tasks will affect rendering at all.
PR Close#53534
Core bundles were retaining the `Version` class and `VERSION` constant, because we stamp out the current version in the DOM. This shouldn't be necessary, because any usage of `0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER` will be replaced with the current version at build time. These changes remove the reference so it can be tree shaken away.
PR Close#53598
The version of rxjs used to build the repository has been updated to v7.
This required only minimal changes to the code. Most of which were type
related only due to more strict types in v7. The behavior in those cases
was left intact. The most common type related change was to handle the
possibility of `undefined` with `toPromise` which was always possible with
v6 but the types did not reflect the runtime behavior. The one change that
was not type related was to provide a parameter value to the `defaultIfEmpty`
operator. It no longer defaults to a value of `null` if no default is provided.
To provide the same behavior the value of `null` is now passed to the operator.
PR Close#53500
When a view has the `Dirty` flag and is reattached, we should ensure that it is
reached and refreshed during the next change detection run from above.
In addition, when a view is created and attached, we should ensure that it is reached
and refreshed during change detection. This can happen if the view is
created and attached outside a change run or when it is created and
attached after its insertion view was already checked. In both cases, we
should ensure that the view is reached and refreshed during either the
current change detection or the next one (if change detection is not
already running).
We can achieve this by creating all views with the `Dirty` flag set.
However, this does happen to be a breaking change in some scenarios.
The one identified internally was actually depending on change detection
_not_ running immediately because it relied on an input value that was
set using `ngModel`. Because `ngModel` sets its value in a `Promise`, it
is not available until the _next_ change detection cycle. Ensuring
created views run in the current change change detection will result in
different behavior in this case.
Making option the default is the solution to #52928. That will have to
wait for a major version.
PR Close#53022
This commit adds the last remaining piece for signal input
type-checking. Bound values to signal inputs are already checked
properly at this point, but inference of generic directive/component
types through their inputs is not implemented.
This commit fixes this. To achieve this, there are a couple of potential
solutions. The generics of a directive are inferred based on input
value expressions using a so-called type constructor. The constructor
looks something like this:
```
const _ctor = <T>(v: Pick<Dir<T>, 'input1', 'input2'>) => Dir<T>;
_ctor({input1: expr1, input2: expr2});
```
This works very well for non-signal inputs where the class member is
directly holding the input values. For signal inputs, this does NOT
work because the class member will actually hold the `InputSignal`
instance. There are a couple of solutions to this:
1. Calling `_ctor` with an `InputSignal<typeof value>`
2. Converting the `_ctor` input signal fields to their write types
(unwrapping the input signals).
We've decided to go with the second option as TypeScript is very
sensitive with assignments and its checks. i.e. co-variance,
contravariance or bivariance. Semantically it makes more sense to unwrap
the input signal "write type" directly and "assign to it". This is safer
and conceptually also easier to follow. A type constructor continues to
only receive the "expresison values". This simplifies code as well.
It's worth noting that the unwrapping as per option 2 also comes at a
cost. We need to be able to generate imports in type constructors. This
was not possible until the previous commit because inline type constructors
did not have an associated type-check block `Environment` and we were
missing access to expression translation and correct import generation.
Overall, solution 2 is now implemented as works as expected. This commit
adds additional unit tests to ensure this.
PR Close#53521
This commit introduces the initial type-checking for signal inputs.
To enable type-checking od signal inputs, there are a couple of tricks
needed. It's not trivial as it would look like at first glance.
Initial attempts could have been to generate additional statements in
type-checking blocks for signal inputs to simply call a method like
`InputSignal#applyNewValue`. This would seem natural, as it would match
what will happen at runtime, but this would break the language-service
auto completion in a highly subtle way. Consider the case where multiple
directives match the same input. Consider the directives have some
overlap in accepted input values, but they also have distinct diverging
values, like:
```ts
class DirA {
value = input<'apple'|'shared'>();
}
class DirB {
value = input<'orange'|'shared'>();
}
```
In such cases, auto completion for the binding expression should suggest
the following values: `apple`, `shared`, `orange` and `undefined`.
The language service achieves this by getting completions in the
type-check block where the user expression would live. This BREAKS if
we'd have multiple places where the expression from the user is used.
Two different places, or more, surface additional problems with
diagnostic collection. Previously diagnostics would surface the union
type of allowed values, but with multiple places, we'd have to work with
potentially 1+ diagnostics. This is non-ideal.
Another important consideration is test coverage. It might sound
problematic to consider the existing test infrastructure as relevant,
but in practice, we have thousands of diagnostic type check block tests
that would greatly benefit if the general emit structure would still
match conceptually. This is another bonus argument on why changing the
way inputs are applied is probably an option we should consider as a
last resort.
Ultimately, there is a good solution where we unwrap directive signal
inputs, based on metadata, and access a brand type field on the
`InputSignal`. This ensures auto-completion continues to work as is, and
also the structure of type check blocks doesn't change conceptually. In
future commits we also need to handle type-inference for generic signal
inputs.
Note: Another alternative considered, in terms of using metadata or not.
We could have type helpers to unwrap signal inputs using type helpers
like: `T extends InputSignal<any, WriteT> ? WriteT : T`. This would
allow us to drop the input signal metadata dependency, but in reality,
this has a few issues:
- users might have `@Input`'s passing around `InputSignal`'s. This is
unlikely, but shows that the solution would not be fully correct.
- we need the metadata regardless, as we plan on accessing it at runtime
as well, to distinguish between signal inputs and normal inputs when
applying new values. This was not clear when this option was
considered initially.
PR Close#53521
This commit introduces a function for declaring inputs in
components. The function is called `input`. It comes in two flavors:
- `input` for optional inputs with initial values
- `input.required` for required inputs
Inputs are declared as class members, like with `@Input`- except that
the class field will no longer hold the input value directly. Angular
takes control over the input field and exposes the input value as a
signal. The runtime implementation will follow in future commits.
This commit simply introduces:
- initial compiler detection to recognize such inputs in classes
- the initial signature of `input` and `input.required`.
Note: the defer size test is flawed and there is no minification- hence
this commit also needs to incorporate the new dependency graph changes.
PR Close#53521
The behavior of `ApplicationRef.isStable` changed in 16.1 due to
28c68f709c.
This change added a `share` to the `isStable` observable, which prevents
additional subscribers from getting a value until a new one emits. One
solution to the problem would be `shareReplay(1)`. However, that would
increase the bundle size since we do not use `shareReplay` elsewhere.
Instead, we don't even really need to share the observable.
The `Observable` available in `ApplicationRef.isStable` before the above commit
was the zone stable observable, without a `share`. The new behavior adds
only an additional observable to the stream, `hasPendingTasks` (a `BehaviorSubject`).
The observables in this stream are not expensive to subscribe to. The
only one with side effects is the `isStable` (because it subscribes to
onStable), but that one already has the `share` operator on it.
Omitting the `share` in `ApplicationRef` also means that applications on `zoneless` will not
have to pay the cost of the operator when we make zones optional because
the zone stable observable is the only place we use it.
PR Close#53541
