In Angular if you have strictTemplates: true in your tsconfig.json and aot: true in your angular.json configuration, you get incredibly important template validation. We absolutely want this turned on during development (in watch/serve mode) to alert developers to binding errors. However, the development build of our app relies on the JIT compiler. Turning on AOT removes the JIT compiler. There's an open issue about it here. There doesn't appear to be a workaround for this, other than patching Angular. Is there a way to turn on template validation, as if AOT was enabled, but without AOT being enabled? Continue reading...
