angular/packages/compiler-cli/linker
Kristiyan Kostadinov 8f3d0b9d97 feat(core): introduce @Service decorator
These changes introduce the new `@Service` decorator which is a more ergonomic alternative to `@Injectable`. The reason we're adding a new decorator is that `@Injectable` has been around since the beginning of Angular and it has a lot of baggage that adds unnecessary overhead for users that generally want to define a singleton service, available in their entire app. The key differences between `@Service` and `@Injectable` are:
1. `@Service` is `providedIn: 'root'` by default. You can opt into providing the service yourself by setting `autoProvided: false` on it.
2. `@Service` doesn't allow constructor-based injection, only the `inject` function.
3. `@Service` doesn't support the complex type signature of `@Injectable` (`useClass`, `useValue` etc.). Instead it supports a single `factory` function.

Example:

```ts
import {Service} from '@angular/core';
import {HttpClient} from '@angular/common/http';
import {AuthService} from './auth';

@Service()
export class PostService {
  private readonly httpClient = inject(HttpClient);
  private readonly authService = inject(AuthService);

  getUserPosts() {
    return this.httpClient.get('/api/posts/' + this.authService.userId);
  }
}
```
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babel fix(compiler): ensure generated code compiles 2026-03-13 11:13:03 -06:00
src feat(core): introduce @Service decorator 2026-04-22 11:01:01 -07:00
test fix(compiler): ensure generated code compiles 2026-03-13 11:13:03 -06:00
BUILD.bazel build: rename defaults2.bzl to defaults.bzl (#63383) 2025-08-25 15:45:01 -07:00
index.ts refactor: update license text to point to angular.dev (#57901) 2024-09-24 15:33:00 +02:00
README.md build: use pnpm as the package manager instead of yarn (#62924) 2025-07-31 22:06:27 +00:00

Angular Linker

This package contains a FileLinker and supporting code to be able to "link" partial declarations of components, directives, etc in libraries to produce the full definitions.

The partial declaration format allows library packages to be published to npm without exposing the underlying Ivy instructions.

The tooling here allows application build tools (e.g. CLI) to produce fully compiled components, directives, etc at the point when the application is bundled. These linked files can be cached outside node_modules so it does not suffer from problems of mutating packages in node_modules.

Generally this tooling will be wrapped in a transpiler specific plugin, such as the provided Babel plugin.

Unit Testing

The unit tests are built and run using Bazel:

pnpm bazel test //packages/compiler-cli/linker/test