Instead of outright suggesting AGAINST this idea mainly due to separate stack requirements I will lay out the trade offs and provide some restrictions which will make this possible.
the page consists of several components which would be running autonomously
We all know this is offered out of box in Angular components with clear demarcation of inputs and output.
Small CAVEAT: When/If you pass objects for @Input
and emit event objects with @Output()
interacting components must agree on a defined interface upfront.
Workaround: Create another TypeScript project which just defines these artifacts. All other “component projects” would depend on a specific version of this.
each component is managed by one dev-team
Dev Teams can distribute the components just like other Angular projects in the opensource are doing. They can publish their artifacts to some npm repository. To develop attributable components I recommend you refer to Angular Material2 which may be overwhelming or you may use something like ngx-library-builder (based on Angular Team Member filipesilva/angular-quickstart-lib ) that each component team uses.
CAVEAT: Till this date angular team does not have a quick component library sharing project setup as evident in Angular CLI. But numerous developers have created some sort of library builders to fill the gap in Angular CLI.
each team can change, update and deploy their components without breaking components of other teams
Have your main project pull all the components and perform a periodic/change triggered build/deploy on some CI server. This is essentially producing AOT production builds with all the latest component releases.
As an added bonus you can have some abstract e2e tests built to do some automated integration testing ensuring side effects of one component does not break other components.
CAVEAT: It will be difficult to govern how each team develops the components i.e. they are doing optimal usage and disposition of memory, CPU, and other resources. e.g. what if one team starts creating subscriptions and does not remove them. Using some static code analysis can be useful but you will not have this source code available at this time – unless they also publish their source code.
each team chooses its own toolstack
This is a complete deal breaker unless if you mean “toolstack” as in developer tools such as IDEs and some of the “devDependencies”. Although certain parts of “devDependencies” of each team must have the same exact versions of angular dev kits such as compilers etc.
At the least each team must use same Angular, RxJS etc.
Most importantly care should be taken that each of the team does not bootstrap any components – only the main projects will have a bootstrap module and that will bootstrap the root component. This will help answer your zone.js
issue
Does this work with Angular?
If you recognize the limitations and provide governance I suggest go for it.