
ngcc creates typically two `ts.Program` instances for each entry-point, one for processing sources and another one for processing the typings. The creation of these programs is somewhat expensive, as it concerns module resolution and parsing of source files. This commit implements several layers of caching to optimize the creation of programs: 1. A shared module resolution cache across all entry-points within a single invocation of ngcc. Both the sources and typings program benefit from this cache. 2. Sharing the parsed `ts.SourceFile` for a single entry-point between the sources and typings program. 3. Sharing parsed `ts.SourceFile`s of TypeScript's default libraries across all entry-points within a single invocation. Some of these default library typings are large and therefore expensive to parse, so sharing the parsed source files across all entry-points offers a significant performance improvement. Using a bare CLI app created using `ng new` + `ng add @angular/material`, the above changes offer a 3-4x improvement in ngcc's processing time when running synchronously and ~2x improvement for asynchronous runs. PR Close #38840
Angular Compatibility Compiler (ngcc)
This compiler will convert node_modules
compiled with ngc
, into node_modules
which
appear to have been compiled with ngtsc
.
This conversion will allow such "legacy" packages to be used by the Ivy rendering engine.
Building
The project is built using Bazel:
yarn bazel build //packages/compiler-cli/ngcc
Unit Testing
The unit tests are built and run using Bazel:
yarn bazel test //packages/compiler-cli/ngcc/test
Integration Testing
There are tests that check the behavior of the overall executable:
yarn bazel test //packages/compiler-cli/ngcc/test:integration