Removes the tsickle dependency added when tsickle was added to the
transform compiler.
Added a test to ensure stray dependencies are not added and no
errors are introduced during module flattening.
The source map does not currently work with the transformer pipeline.
It will be re-enabled after TypeScript 2.4 is made the min version.
To revert to the former compiler, use the `disableTransformerPipeline` in
tsconfig.json:
```
{
"angularCompilerOptions": {
"disableTransformerPipeline": true
}
}
```
In previous version of tsickle abstract class methods were materialized.
The change resulted in 6Kb savings in angular.io bundle.
This change also required the removal of `@private` and `@return` type
annotation as it is explicitly dissalowed by tsickle.
NOTE: removed casts in front of `makeDecorator` due to:
https://github.com/angular/devkit/issues/45
```
14938 Jul 19 13:16 0.b19e913fbdd6507d346b.chunk.js
1535 Jul 19 13:16 inline.d8e019ea3cfdd86c2bd0.bundle.js
589178 Jul 19 13:16 main.54c97bcb6f254776b678.bundle.js
34333 Jul 19 13:16 polyfills.4a3c9ca9481d53803157.bundle.js
14938 Jul 18 16:55 0.b19e913fbdd6507d346b.chunk.js
1535 Jul 18 16:55 inline.0c83abb44fad9a2768a7.bundle.js
582786 Jul 18 16:55 main.ea290db71b051813e156.bundle.js
34333 Jul 18 16:55 polyfills.4a3c9ca9481d53803157.bundle.js
main savings: 589178 - 582786 = 6,392
```
PR Close#18236
This puts the behavior introduced in 573b8611bc behind the new flag
`alwaysCompileGeneratedCode` to not break users that might have relied
on this behavior.
Refactoring the compiler to use transformers moves the code generation
after type-checking which suppresses the errors TypeScript would
generate in the user code.
`TypeChecker` currently produces the same factory code that was
generated prior the switch to transfomers, getting back the same
diagnostics as before. The refactoring will allow the code to
diverge from the factory code and allow better diagnostic error
messages than was previously possible by type-checking the factories.