feat(angular): add support for incremental builds to the webpack-server executor (#10754)

docs/generated/packages/angular.json

@@ -2999,6 +2999,10 @@
           "poll": {
             "type": "number",
             "description": "Enable and define the file watching poll time period in milliseconds."
+          },
+          "buildLibsFromSource": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Read buildable libraries from source instead of building them separately. If not set, it will take the value specified in the `browserTarget` options, or it will default to `true` if it's also not set in the `browserTarget` options."
           }
         },
         "additionalProperties": false,

packages/angular/package.json

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
     "@nrwl/jest": "file:../jest",
     "@nrwl/linter": "file:../linter",
     "@nrwl/storybook": "file:../storybook",
+    "@nrwl/web": "file:../web",
     "@nrwl/workspace": "file:../workspace",
     "@phenomnomnominal/tsquery": "4.1.1",
     "@schematics/angular": "~14.0.0",

packages/angular/src/builders/webpack-server/schema.d.ts

@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ export interface Schema {
   hmr?: boolean;
   watch?: boolean;
   poll?: number;
+  buildLibsFromSource?: boolean;
 }

packages/angular/src/builders/webpack-server/schema.json

@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@
     "poll": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Enable and define the file watching poll time period in milliseconds."
+    },
+    "buildLibsFromSource": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Read buildable libraries from source instead of building them separately. If not set, it will take the value specified in the `browserTarget` options, or it will default to `true` if it's also not set in the `browserTarget` options."
     }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false,

packages/angular/src/builders/webpack-server/webpack-server.impl.ts

@@ -1,31 +1,38 @@
-import { BuilderContext, createBuilder } from '@angular-devkit/architect';
+import {
+  BuilderContext,
+  BuilderOutput,
+  createBuilder,
+} from '@angular-devkit/architect';
 import {
   DevServerBuilderOptions,
-  serveWebpackBrowser,
-} from '@angular-devkit/build-angular/src/builders/dev-server';
+  executeDevServerBuilder,
+} from '@angular-devkit/build-angular';
 import { JsonObject } from '@angular-devkit/core';
 import {
   joinPathFragments,
   parseTargetString,
   readAllWorkspaceConfiguration,
-  Workspaces,
+  readCachedProjectGraph,
 } from '@nrwl/devkit';
+import { WebpackNxBuildCoordinationPlugin } from '@nrwl/web/src/plugins/webpack-nx-build-coordination-plugin';
+import {
+  calculateProjectDependencies,
+  createTmpTsConfig,
+  DependentBuildableProjectNode,
+} from '@nrwl/workspace/src/utilities/buildable-libs-utils';
 import { existsSync } from 'fs';
+import { isNpmProject } from 'nx/src/project-graph/operators';
+import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 import { merge } from 'webpack-merge';
 import { resolveCustomWebpackConfig } from '../utilities/webpack';
 import { normalizeOptions } from './lib';
 import type { Schema } from './schema';
 
 export function executeWebpackServerBuilder(
-  schema: Schema,
+  rawOptions: Schema,
   context: BuilderContext
-) {
-  process.env.NX_TSCONFIG_PATH = joinPathFragments(
-    context.workspaceRoot,
-    'tsconfig.base.json'
-  );
-
-  const options = normalizeOptions(schema);
+): Observable<BuilderOutput> {
+  const options = normalizeOptions(rawOptions);
   const workspaceConfig = readAllWorkspaceConfiguration();
 
   const parsedBrowserTarget = parseTargetString(options.browserTarget);
@@ -34,28 +41,89 @@ export function executeWebpackServerBuilder(
       parsedBrowserTarget.target
     ];
 
-  const selectedConfiguration = parsedBrowserTarget.configuration
+  const buildTargetConfiguration = parsedBrowserTarget.configuration
     ? buildTarget.configurations[parsedBrowserTarget.configuration]
     : buildTarget.defaultConfiguration
     ? buildTarget.configurations[buildTarget.defaultConfiguration]
-    : buildTarget.options;
+    : undefined;
+
+  const buildLibsFromSource =
+    options.buildLibsFromSource ??
+    buildTargetConfiguration?.buildLibsFromSource ??
+    buildTarget.options.buildLibsFromSource ??
+    true;
 
   const customWebpackConfig: { path: string } =
-    selectedConfiguration.customWebpackConfig ??
+    buildTargetConfiguration?.customWebpackConfig ??
     buildTarget.options.customWebpackConfig;
 
+  let pathToWebpackConfig: string;
   if (customWebpackConfig && customWebpackConfig.path) {
-    const pathToWebpackConfig = joinPathFragments(
+    pathToWebpackConfig = joinPathFragments(
       context.workspaceRoot,
       customWebpackConfig.path
     );
 
-    if (existsSync(pathToWebpackConfig)) {
-      return serveWebpackBrowser(
-        options as DevServerBuilderOptions,
-        context as any,
-        {
+    if (!existsSync(pathToWebpackConfig)) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Custom Webpack Config File Not Found!\nTo use a custom webpack config, please ensure the path to the custom webpack file is correct: \n${pathToWebpackConfig}`
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  let dependencies: DependentBuildableProjectNode[];
+  if (!buildLibsFromSource) {
+    const buildTargetTsConfigPath =
+      buildTargetConfiguration?.tsConfig ?? buildTarget.options.tsConfig;
+    const result = calculateProjectDependencies(
+      readCachedProjectGraph(),
+      context.workspaceRoot,
+      context.target.project,
+      parsedBrowserTarget.target,
+      context.target.configuration
+    );
+    dependencies = result.dependencies;
+    const updatedTsConfig = createTmpTsConfig(
+      joinPathFragments(context.workspaceRoot, buildTargetTsConfigPath),
+      context.workspaceRoot,
+      result.target.data.root,
+      dependencies
+    );
+    process.env.NX_TSCONFIG_PATH = updatedTsConfig;
+
+    // We can't just pass the tsconfig path in memory to the angular builder
+    // function because we can't pass the build target options to it, the build
+    // targets options will be retrieved by the builder from the project
+    // configuration. Therefore, we patch the method in the context to retrieve
+    // the target options to overwrite the tsconfig path to use the generated
+    // one with the updated path mappings.
+    const originalGetTargetOptions = context.getTargetOptions;
+    context.getTargetOptions = async (target) => {
+      const options = await originalGetTargetOptions(target);
+      options.tsConfig = updatedTsConfig;
+      return options;
+    };
+  }
+
+  return executeDevServerBuilder(options as DevServerBuilderOptions, context, {
     webpackConfiguration: async (baseWebpackConfig) => {
+      if (!buildLibsFromSource) {
+        const workspaceDependencies = dependencies
+          .filter((dep) => !isNpmProject(dep.node))
+          .map((dep) => dep.node.name);
+        baseWebpackConfig.plugins.push(
+          new WebpackNxBuildCoordinationPlugin(
+            `nx run-many --target=${
+              parsedBrowserTarget.target
+            } --projects=${workspaceDependencies.join(',')}`
+          )
+        );
+      }
+
+      if (!pathToWebpackConfig) {
+        return baseWebpackConfig;
+      }
+
       const customWebpackConfiguration = resolveCustomWebpackConfig(
         pathToWebpackConfig,
         buildTarget.options.tsConfig
@@ -70,26 +138,14 @@ export function executeWebpackServerBuilder(
       if (typeof config === 'function') {
         return config(
           baseWebpackConfig,
-                selectedConfiguration,
+          buildTargetConfiguration,
           context.target
         );
-            } else {
-              return merge(baseWebpackConfig, config);
-            }
-          },
-        }
-      );
-    } else {
-      throw new Error(
-        `Custom Webpack Config File Not Found!\nTo use a custom webpack config, please ensure the path to the custom webpack file is correct: \n${pathToWebpackConfig}`
-      );
-    }
       }
 
-  return serveWebpackBrowser(
-    options as DevServerBuilderOptions,
-    context as any
-  );
+      return merge(baseWebpackConfig, config);
+    },
+  });
 }
 
 export default createBuilder<JsonObject & Schema>(