Provide an Ivy distribution

[stefnedelchevbrady]

After migrating to Angular 13, now I get this message when building:

⠙ Generating browser application bundles (phase: setup)...Processing legacy "View Engine" libraries:
- @auth0/auth0-angular [es2015/esm2015] (git+https://github.com/auth0/auth0-angular.git)
- @auth0/angular-jwt [es2015/esm2015] (git+https://github.com/auth0/angular2-jwt.git)
Encourage the library authors to publish an Ivy distribution.

I think it's related to the fact that Angular are deprecating the View Engine in favour of Ivy which means in Angular v14 the library won't be able to build any more if this change is not being addressed.

[frederikprijck]

Thanks for reporting this.

I will have a look into this, in the mean time if this is blocking for you I am happy to review a PR.

[stefnedelchevbrady]

Thanks for reporting this.

I will have a look into this, in the mean time if this is blocking for you I am happy to review a PR.

Thank you. No, currently it's not blocking, it would become blocking when Angular 14 gets released and people migrate to it.

[frederikprijck]

We looked at this internally and believe it is definitely an improvement to be providing an Ivy Distribution.
However, doing so could mean our SDK stops working for people using Angular 9 and 10.
Even though those two versions aren't supported by the Angular team itself, we do have customers using those versions and we feel like we don't want to break our SDK for them.

The above means we will need to patch this in a major version, which we feel like we want to use to introduce a few other breaking changes as well and plan it for later this year.

It also looks like our SDK still works with Angular 14 beta, however as soon as it turns out our SDK is not compatible with the latest version of Angular we will definitely put a fix out as soon as possible.

[MedLeon]

I am looking forward to it!

The first RC for Angular 14 is out. What's the progress on version 2.0?
Have you already checked wether the SDK works with the RC or not?

[frederikprijck]

Curious why you are looking forward to it? Anything you are missing in the current format that doesn't allow you to achieve what u want?

There is no time frame on 2.0 currently, no.

[MedLeon]

I was hoping for an easy way to write to user_metadata. At the moment it's really difficult.

Furthermore I am just looking forward to using Angular v14. There is some good stuff coming. But it looks like the RC is Ivy only. So without the update to an Ivy distribution Auth0 would hold me back from using some incredible features.

[frederikprijck]

Thanks for that info @MedLeon . Our intention is definitely not to block anyone. I will look into the RC and try and identify what it means for non-Ivy Distributions.

[frederikprijck]

@MedLeon , I installed our SDK in an Angular application that's using 14.0.0-rc.0 and the behavior seems to be identical to 13: it works fine but outputs a Processing legacy "View Engine" libraries.

Would you have some more information about this?

But it looks like the RC is Ivy only. So without the update to an Ivy distribution Auth0 would hold me back from using some incredible features.

[tuuling]

Building View Engine libraries makes to build process longer than it has to imo.

The above means we will need to patch this in a major version, which we feel like we want to use to introduce a few other breaking changes as well and plan it for later this year.

Just make Ivy 2.0 and next breaking changes 3.0 - doesn't cost you anything. This is what other angular libraries have done for Ivy support. See my comment here:
lephyrus/ngx-translate-messageformat-compiler#78 (comment)

[stefnedelchevbrady]

@MedLeon , I installed our SDK in an Angular application that's using 14.0.0-rc.0 and the behavior seems to be identical to 13: it works fine but outputs a Processing legacy "View Engine" libraries.

Would you have some more information about this?

But it looks like the RC is Ivy only. So without the update to an Ivy distribution Auth0 would hold me back from using some incredible features.

Let's see what's going to happen when the final 14.0.0 release comes out. Maybe they will drop the View Engine support last, who knows?