How JHipster migrated from AngularJS 1.x to Angular 2 ? William Marques and Flavien Cathala, JHipster Core Team Member show you how !

1. JHipster 4.0
The Angular Migration
by Flavien Cathala and William Marques

2. Who are we ?
William Marques Flavien Cathala
@wylmarq
wmarques@ippon.fr
JHipster Member
Ippon Consultant
@flaviencathala
fcathala@ippon.fr
JHipster Member
Epitech Student

3. Summary
1. Introduction
2. Prepare your migration
3. Angular 2 ecosystem
4. Step-by-step migration
5. After the migration

4. Migration on JHipster
JHipster Team
VictorJulien Deepu William Flavien Sendil
Kurman

5. Migration on JHipster
Contributors
Chris Thielen
UI Router founder
Sean Larkin
Webpack member

6. Migration on JHipster
Chronology
Start of
migration
June
Migration to
Webpack
November
Entities
Tests
December
End ?
January
Dependencies
September

7. Angular 2
- New syntax
- New concepts
Officially released in September 2016 with:

8. AngularJS vs Angular 2
Javascript Typescript
MVC Component Oriented
Promise Observable
AngularJS Angular 2

9. Why migrating ?
- Better performances
- More adapted to mobile terminals
- Better productivity
- AngularJS will be deprecated

10. PREPARE
YOURSELF

11. Follow the John Papa style
Major rules :
Folder-By-Feature
Scope Isolation (controllerAs “vm”)
IIFE (avoid minification conflicts)
https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide/tree/master/a1
(that’s him)

12. Be modular !
Create module files and declare your controllers and factories there
Code is cleaner
Easy module loader setup
Source: https://github.com/tuchk4/requirejs-angular-loader

13. Do Components
Only available in >= 1.5.x
Easy switch to Angular 2 Component
Promote best practices (scope isolation)
One-way binding possible
angular.module('heroApp').component('heroDetail', {
templateUrl: 'heroDetail.html',
controller: HeroDetailController,
bindings: {
hero: '='
}
});

14. BONUS 1 : Do TypeScript
Spoiler : You will write TypeScript with Angular 2 (widely recommended)
Add classes, types, imports in your code
Very easy migration to Angular 2
https://codepen.io/martinmcwhorter/post/angularjs-1-x-with-typescript-or-es6-best-practices

15. BONUS 2 : Yarn
New package manager (another one)
Much faster
Easy to use (same command as NPM)
Avoid “works on my machine” issue
Offline Installation

16. Angular 2 ecosystem

17. Module loader
Why ?
- Code complexity
- Performances
- Avoid injection of huge number of files in index

18. Module loader
Complexity ** **
Maintainability * ***
Performances * ***
SystemJS Webpack
Which one ?

19. Module loader
Why Webpack ?

20. Migration to Webpack
+

21. Webpack
webpack.common
webpack.dev
webpack.prod
polyfills
vendor

22. webpack.dev.js
const webpackMerge = require('webpack-merge');
const commonConfig = require('./webpack.common.js');
const ENV = 'prod';
module.exports = webpackMerge(commonConfig({env: ENV}), {
output: {
filename: '[hash].[name].bundle.js',
chunkFilename: '[hash].[id].chunk.js'
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin('[hash].styles.css')
]
});
Webpack
webpack.prod.js
const webpackMerge = require('webpack-merge');
const commonConfig = require('./webpack.common.js');
const ENV = 'dev';
module.exports = webpackMerge(commonConfig({env: ENV}),
{
module: {
rules: [{
test: /.ts$/,
loaders: [
'tslint'
]
}]
},
plugins: [
new BrowserSyncPlugin({
host: 'localhost',
port: 9000,
proxy: 'http://localhost:8080'
}),
new ExtractTextPlugin('styles.css'),
new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
]
});

23. polyfills.ts
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';
import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css';
Webpack
vendor.ts
import 'reflect-metadata/Reflect';
import 'zone.js/dist/zone';
module.exports = function (options) {
const DATAS = {
VERSION:
JSON.stringify(require("../package.json").version),
DEBUG_INFO_ENABLED: options.env === 'dev'
};
return {
entry: {
'polyfills': './src/main/webapp/app/polyfills',
'vendor': './src/main/webapp/app/vendor',
'main': './src/main/webapp/app/app.main'
},
resolve: {
extensions: ['.ts', '.js'],
modules: ['node_modules']
},
output: {
path: './target/www',
filename: '[name].bundle.js',
chunkFilename: '[id].chunk.js'
},
webpack.common.js

24. Webpack
How to run Webpack ?
webpack --watch --config webpack/webpack.dev.js
webpack -p --config webpack/webpack.prod.js
Using NPM scripts
package.json
"scripts": {
"webpack:dev": "webpack --watch --config
webpack/webpack.dev.js",
"webpack:prod": "webpack -p --config webpack/webpack.prod.js"
}
npm run webpack:dev
npm run webpack:prod
Command lines

25. Package managers

26. THE MIGRATION

27. Migration Plan : Bottom Up
1. Setup migration (install Angular 2 packages, the hybrid app)
2. Migrate small controllers, services, templates (leafs) and then their
parents
3. Migrate routes
4. Check 3rd party dependencies (Angular UI, Angular Translate)
5. Remove AngularJS Code / Dependencies

28. upgradeAdapter
Incremental Update (hybrid app)
Upgrade your Angular 1 Services, Controllers…
Downgrade your Angular 2 Services, Components…
Bad performance (temporary solution)
Why ?

29. Setup
Remove ng-app and strict-di attribute in your template
Create an app.main.ts :
upgradeAdapter.bootstrap(document.body, ['myApp.app'], {strictDi: true});

30. Setup
import * as angular from 'angular';
import { UpgradeAdapter } from '@angular/upgrade';
import { forwardRef } from '@angular/core';
import { Ng2BasicAppModule } from './app.ng2module';
export var upgradeAdapter: UpgradeAdapter = new UpgradeAdapter(forwardRef(() => Ng2BasicAppModule));
Create an upgrade_adapter.ts file

31. Usage
Downgrade an Angular 2 Component to use it in your Angular 1 App,
add in your module file :
For a service :
.directive(‘home’, <angular.IDirectiveFactory> upgradeAdapter.downgradeNg2Component(HomeComponent))
.factory(‘example’, adapter.downgradeNg2Provider(Example));

32. Controller Migration
- Remove the IIFE
- Remove the $inject
- Use the @Component annotation
- Replace controller function by class

33. Controller Migration
import { Component, OnInit, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { StateService } from "ui-router-ng2";
import { NgbModalRef } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';
import { Account, LoginModalService, Principal } from "../shared";
@Component({
selector: 'home',
templateUrl: './home.html'
})
export class HomeComponent implements OnInit {
account: Account;
modalRef: NgbModalRef;
constructor(
private principal: Principal,
private $state: StateService,
private loginModalService: LoginModalService
) {}
ngOnInit() {
this.principal.identity().then((account) => {
this.account = account;
});
}
isAuthenticated() {
return this.principal.isAuthenticated();
}
login() {
this.modalRef = this.loginModalService.open();
}
}
(function() {
'use strict';
angular
.module('ng2FinalApp')
.controller('HomeController', HomeController);
HomeController.$inject = ['$scope', 'Principal', 'LoginService', '$state'];
function HomeController ($scope, Principal, LoginService, $state) {
var vm = this;
vm.account = null;
vm.isAuthenticated = null;
vm.login = LoginService.open;
vm.register = register;
$scope.$on('authenticationSuccess', function() {
getAccount();
});
getAccount();
function getAccount() {
Principal.identity().then(function(account) {
vm.account = account;
vm.isAuthenticated = Principal.isAuthenticated;
});
}
function register () {
$state.go('register');
}
}
})();

34. Same refactoring as controllers
Add your service in the providers array of your Angular 2 Module in order to
inject it in your Angular 2 Components
Downgrade it using the upgradeAdapter in your Angular 1 Module :
Service migration
.factory('example', adapter.downgradeNg2Provider(Example));

35. Service Migration
1 2
(function() {
'use strict';
angular
.module('ng2FinalApp')
.factory('LogsService', LogsService);
LogsService.$inject = ['$resource'];
function LogsService ($resource) {
var service = $resource('management/jhipster/logs', {}, {
'findAll': { method: 'GET', isArray: true},
'changeLevel': { method: 'PUT'}
});
return service;
}
})();
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';
import { Log } from './log.model';
@Injectable()
export class LogsService {
constructor(private http: Http) { }
changeLevel(log: Log): Observable<Response> {
return this.http.put('management/jhipster/logs', log);
}
findAll(): Observable<Log[]> {
return this.http.get('management/jhipster/logs').map((res:
Response) => res.json());
}
}

36. Angular 1 Dependency in Angular 2 ?
Upgrade the Angular 1 provider in your module file, using the upgradeAdapter:
Use the @Inject annotation in your Angular 2 controller/service constructor :
Same for Angular 1 lib dependencies ($state, $rootScope… )
@Inject('heroes') heroes: HeroesService
adapter.upgradeNg1Provider('heroes');

37. Routes Migration
Angular 2 Router UI-Router NG2
Default solution for Angular Team
Inspired by AngularJS UI Router
Component Oriented
Easy migration from UI Router NG 1
Visualizer feature
Breaking changes from UI Router NG1 Not the official Solution
Final Decision : UI-Router NG2, because of their contribution to JHipster
NG2 Router or UI-Router ?

38. Route Migration: Setup
Install ui-router-ng1-to-ng2 and ui-router-ng2 NPM packages
Add uirouter.upgrade module dependency in your Angular 1 Module
Add Ng1ToNg2Module in your Angular 2 Module
let ng1module = angular.module("myApp", [uiRouter, 'ui.router.upgrade']);
@NgModule({
imports: [ BrowserModule, Ng1ToNg2Module ]
}) class SampleAppModule {}

39. Route Migration : UpgradeAdapter
In your upgrade_adapter.ts file, add these lines :
import { uiRouterNgUpgrade } from "ui-router-ng1-to-ng2";
uiRouterNgUpgrade.setUpgradeAdapter(upgradeAdapter);

40. Route migration : refactoring
import { RegisterComponent } from './register.component';
import { JhiLanguageService } from '../../shared';
export const registerState = {
name: 'register',
parent: 'account',
url: '/register',
data: {
authorities: [],
pageTitle: 'register.title'
},
views: {
'content@': { component: RegisterComponent }
},
resolve: [{
token: 'translate',
deps: [JhiLanguageService],
resolveFn: (languageService) => languageService.setLocations(['register'])
}]
};
(function() {
'use strict';
angular
.module('ng2FinalApp')
.config(stateConfig);
stateConfig.$inject = ['$stateProvider'];
function stateConfig($stateProvider) {
$stateProvider.state('register', {
parent: 'account',
url: '/register',
data: {
authorities: [],
pageTitle: 'register.title'
},
views: {
'content@': {
templateUrl: 'app/account/register/register.html',
controller: 'RegisterController',
controllerAs: 'vm'
}
},
resolve: {
translatePartialLoader: ['$translate', '$translatePartialLoader',
function ($translate, $translatePartialLoader) {
$translatePartialLoader.addPart('register');
return $translate.refresh();
}]
}
});
}
})();

41. Route migration : Route Declaration
let ACCOUNT_STATES = [
accountState,
activateState,
passwordState,
finishResetState,
requestResetState,
registerState,
sessionsState,
settingsState
];
@NgModule({
imports: [
Ng2BasicSharedModule,
UIRouterModule.forChild({ states: ACCOUNT_STATES })
],
declarations: [
ActivateComponent,
RegisterComponent,
PasswordComponent,
PasswordResetInitComponent,
PasswordResetFinishComponent,
SessionsComponent,
SettingsComponent
],
providers: [
SessionsService,
Register,
Activate,
Password,
PasswordResetInit,
PasswordResetFinish
],
schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA]
})
export class Ng2BasicAccountModule {}
Add your routes in a variable and then import them using UIRouterModule.forChild :

42. Templates migration
ng-class [ngClass]
ng-click (click)
ng-if *ngIf
ng-model [(ngModel)]
ng-repeat *ngFor
AngularJS Angular 2

43. Templates migration
<div class="modal-header">
<button class="close" type="button"
(click)="activeModal.dismiss('closed')">x
</button>
<h4 class="modal-title">Sign in</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-4">
<h1 jhi-translate="login.title">Sign in</h1>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
<div class="alert-danger" *ngIf="authenticationError">
<strong>Failed to sign in!</strong>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
<form class="form" role="form" (ngSubmit)="login()">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="username">Login</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="username"
id="username" [(ngModel)]="username">
</div>
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close"
ng-click="vm.cancel()">&times;</button>
<h4 class="modal-title">Sign in</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-4">
<h1 data-translate="login.title">Sign in</h1>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
<div class="alert-danger" ng-show="vm.authenticationError">
<strong>Failed to sign in!</strong>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
<form class="form" role="form" ng-submit="vm.login($event)">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="username">Login</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control"
id="username" ng-model="vm.username">
</div>

44. Dependencies migration
- angular-ui
ng-bootstrap- angular-translate
ng2-translate
Some external dependencies needed to be replaced/updated:
- ...

45. Remove AngularJS
- Remove upgradeAdapter
- Remove all AngularJS files
Once everything has been migrated:

46. CONCLUSION

47. Migration Feedback
A lot of new technologies and architectures
Difficult process
Some libs are poorly documented and in alpha
Only a few projects already migrated
Many different choices (Router, Module Loader)
Don’t do it yourself : Use JHipster ;-)

48. About Angular 2...
Modern approach (Component oriented)
TypeScript Features (types, ES6)
Cleaner code
Less tools (only NPM)

49. What’s next ?
Router discussions
Hot Module Loader
Ahead Of Time compilation
Finish migration for all configurations

50. Demo

51. Questions ?