The change avoids the compiler CLI internal API from mismatching the following case as lazy loading
```
import { NonLazyLoadedModule } from './non-lazy-loaded/non-lazy-loaded.module';
export function getNonLazyLoadedModule() { return NonLazyLoadedModule; }
export const routes = [
{ path: '/some-path', loadChildren: getNonLazyLoadedModule }
];
```
The output of the check is later passed to `RouteDef.fromString()`, so, it makes sense to be only a string.
Fixesangular/angular-cli#3204
This change adds Compiler CLI support for any level of nesting for lazy routes.
For example `{app-root}/lazy-loaded-module-1/lazy-loaded-module-2/lazy-loaded-module-3`
Where `lazy-loaded-module-3` is lazy loaded from `lazy-loaded-module-2`,
and `lazy-loaded-module-2` is lazy loaded from module `lazy-loaded-module-1`,
and `lazy-loaded-module-1` is lazy loaded from `AppModule`
Fixesangular/angular-cli#3663
This was done in order for us to be able to publish tsc-wrapped as @next tag on npm.
The next step is to change the build scripts to version and release @angular/tsc-wrapped
together with all the other packages. I'll create an issue/PR for this.
@angular/language-service now supports using TypeScript 2.1 as the
the TypeScript host. TypeScript 2.1 is now also partially supported
in `ngc` but is not recommended as Tsickle does not yet support 2.1.
This change retracts support for metadata version 2.
The collector used to produce version 2 metadata was incomplete
and can cause the AOT compiler to fail to resolve symbols or
produce other spurious errors.
All libraries compiled and published with 2.3.0 ngc will need
to be recompiled and updated with this change.
When compiling libraries, this feature extracts the minimal information
from the directives/pipes/modules of the library into `.ngsummary.json` files,
so that applications that use this library only need to be recompiled
if one of the summary files change, but not on every change
of the libraries (e.g. one of the templates).
Only works if individual codegen for libraries is enabled,
see the `generateCodeForLibraries: false` option.
Closes#12787
Vikram Subramanian
Meligy
Matias Niemelä
Igor Minar
Chuck Jazdzewski
Victor Berchet
Bowen Ni
Tobias Bosch
Hans
Alex Rickabaugh
Miško Hevery