DEPRECATION:
Ivy made it possible to avoid the need to resolve Component and NgModule factories. Framework APIs allow to use Component and NgModule Types directly. As a result, the `PlatformRef.bootstrapModuleFactory` and a factory-based signature of the `ApplicationRef.bootstrap` method are now obsolete and are now deprecated.
The `PlatformRef.bootstrapModuleFactory` calls can be replaced with `PlatformRef.bootstrapModule` ones. The `ApplicationRef.bootstrap` method allows to provide Component Type, so this can be used a replacement for the factory-based calls.
PR Close#43560
According to @atscott:
> We no longer speculate about future deprecations. There are no current plans to remove
> `params` or `queryParams` and there's no benefit to advising against their use.
PR Close#43562
Since the `strictTemplates` flag has been introduced in Angular the
compiler has been able to type-check input bindings to the declared
input type of the corresponding directive. When a getter/setter pair is
being used for the input it may be desirable to let the setter accept a
broader set of types than what is returned by the getter, for example
when the setter first converts the input value. However, until
TypeScript 4.3 a getter/setter pair was required to have identical types
so this pattern could not be accurately declared.
To mitigate this limitation, it was made possible to declare
input setter coercion fields in directives that are used when
type-checking input bindings. However, since TypeScript 4.3 the
limitation has been removed; setters can now accept a wider type than
what is returned by the getter. This means that input coercion fields
are no longer needed, as their effects can be achieved by widening the
type of the setter.
PR Close#43506
Previously the `http` example did accessed the npmsearch.com website to demonstrate response caching.
But if this service became unavailable then the example (and its e2e tests) would fail.
This commit changes the example to use the in-memory-web-api for this lookup, which will not be affected by 3rd party outages.
The guide that references this example has been updated to avoid references to the original npm search service.
PR Close#43475
Note that because `angular.json` is a "boilerplate" file we cannot
just add comments to the one that is actually used in the application.
Instead this commit makes a copy, which is annotated with docregions.
To ensure that this file is not ignored by the example-collector, we had to
update the `.gitignore` to not ignore this file. (This also allows the file to be
easily stored tracked in git).
PR Close#43216
Andrew Kushnir