Enable Ivy compiler

[bmagrys]

Wait for official support
angular/angular#30262 (comment)

[kondi0]

Any news?

[hadrien-toma]

Maybe now, any news?

[bmagrys]

@kondi0 @hadrien-toma Unfortunately, I was forced to abandon this solution and I do not have time to do any research or maintenance on this matter.

[hadrien-toma]

I understand, it is kind to have tried and to share this status. Do you recommend to not use Ivy if using Angular Element then? I fear to do this choice because I suppose in the near future Ivy will be the only compiler available... Do you know if am I wrong?

[bmagrys]

Your fear is absolutely justified - "View Engine is no longer available in Angular as of v13". So there is only Ivy compiler now, probably. I can't say that is no way to workaround about this and probably there is still a lot of potential in micro frontends in general. I can only say that in all of my projects in the past 2-3 years if I needed to extract some common things for multiple projects I went into "ng-packagr"-based solution and there were no problems with the Ivy. Unpredictability of the Angular Elements-based complex solutions was too huge to me to take risk in real-life projects.

[hadrien-toma]

Alright, this is very useful feedback, thank you very much.
May you point me to some information/documentation related to the solution you suggested around ng-packagr? My use case is to be able to use components developed with Angular in a PHP based website (so I need to package the web component in some way but I am only aware of Angular Element for this need).

[bmagrys]

Unfortunately "ng-packagr" helps with other kind of problems than this one and I am unable to help more. In case of Angular, Elements should be the right choice for creating such components for PHP-based apps. Maybe situation is not that bad and it's possible with AOT and/or Ivy now , but I can't quickly check this because this project uses ngx-build-plus in all configuration files, which is helpful for Angular Elements, but only up to version 9 of Angular.

[hadrien-toma]

Noted, thank you very much for your help and time.
By the way, I really find this repo is a masterpiece so thank you also for sharing it 👍.

[bmagrys]

No problem 😀 and thanks for appreciating. I hope I will find some time to investigate the case in higher Angular versions in the future.