There is quite some trickery going on with the adev build related to
local packages:
- Adev builds using npm packages from `/node_modules`
- At runtime, we are adding `HEAD` packages for e.g. `@angular/core` to
the bundles.
- At build time, the CLI, or Angular devkit may accidentally resolve to
`@angular/core` from `/node_modules/`— which is the core version from
npm, transitively installed via `@angular/docs`.
This causes a version mismatch, leading to issues like:
- CLI throwing because of a mismatch. https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/54858#issuecomment-2047188739
- Compiler changes not being picked up. https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/54858#issuecomment-2041322427
This commit attempts to fix this by:
- Linking all Angular `HEAD` packages into `adev/node_modules`. The
current logic attempts to link into `/node_modules`, but this does not
override existing `@angular/core`!
- Linking all direct external NPM packages, like
`@angular_devkit/build-angular` into `adev/node_modules` without their
transitive deps. This allows proper resolution of e.g. compiler as
node looks in `adev/node_modules` first, and falls back for the rest
to the execroot `node_modules`, or symlink target destination (if
`preserveSymlinks=false`).
Note: This is still not 100% ideal because a direct external NPM
dependency may have a transitive dependency that has another transitive
dependency on `@angular/core`. In those cases, the may be a conflict
that is not resolvable until we switch to a Bazel toolchain with better
first party resolution support.
PR Close#55282
Use no-remote-exec to allow for building and serving to occur locally but still allow remote caching. Because of the number of
files involved in being passed to and from the RBE server, it is actually a bit faster to perform these actions locally.
PR Close#54549
Creates a "fast mode" for building the adev site, currently only disabling prerender during fast build.
This is intended to be used for local development.
PR Close#54364
Alan Agius