In Angular today, the following pattern works:
```typescript
export class BaseDir {
constructor(@Inject(ViewContainerRef) protected vcr: ViewContainerRef) {}
}
@Directive({
selector: '[child]',
})
export class ChildDir extends BaseDir {
// constructor inherited from BaseDir
}
```
A decorated child class can inherit a constructor from an undecorated base
class, so long as the base class has metadata of its own (for JIT mode).
This pattern works regardless of metadata in AOT.
In Angular Ivy, this pattern does not work: without the @Directive
annotation identifying the base class as a directive, information about its
constructor parameters will not be captured by the Ivy compiler. This is a
result of Ivy's locality principle, which is the basis behind a number of
compilation optimizations.
As a solution, @Directive() without a selector will be interpreted as a
"directive base class" annotation. Such a directive cannot be declared in an
NgModule, but can be inherited from. To implement this, a few changes are
made to the ngc compiler:
* the error for a selector-less directive is now generated when an NgModule
declaring it is processed, not when the directive itself is processed.
* selector-less directives are not tracked along with other directives in
the compiler, preventing other errors (like their absence in an NgModule)
from being generated from them.
PR Close#31379
Fixes Ivy's directive matching not capturing attribute selectors when there is one class binding, one style binding and a regular binding that precede the attribute that would match the directive. The issue appears to come from the fact that we weren't skipping over style bindings correctly which was throwing the loop off not to go into `bindingsMode` and to skip some of the bindings when matching.
PR Close#31942
Fixes Ivy's `DebugElement.triggerEventHandler` to picking up events that have been registered through a `Renderer2`, unlike ViewEngine.
This PR resolves FW-1480.
PR Close#31845
Prior to this commit, the `schemas` configuration was applied to top-level view only. That leads to problems when using unknown props with elements inside nested views (for example generated as a result of *ngIf). This commit passes `schemas` information down to nested views to make sure that all the checks are consistent.
PR Close#31913
Kristiyan Kostadinov
Pawel Kozlowski
Kara Erickson
Judy Bogart
Alex Rickabaugh
hafiz
Andrew Kushnir