Inheritance of Angular 5 components with overriding the decorator properties

Question

In Angular 2/4 we could create custom decorator for extending parent component. Actual overriding of the decorator properties was handled as needed in the custom decorator.

Answer 1

At the end I came up to this implementation of a custom decorator (extendedcomponent.decorator.ts):

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

export function ExtendedComponent(extendedConfig: Component = {}) {
    return function (target: Function) {
        const ANNOTATIONS = '__annotations__';
        const PARAMETERS = '__paramaters__';
        const PROP_METADATA = '__prop__metadata__';

        const annotations = target[ANNOTATIONS] || [];
        const parameters = target[PARAMETERS] || [];
        const propMetadata = target[PROP_METADATA] || [];

        if (annotations.length > 0) {
            const parentAnnotations = Object.assign({}, annotations[0]);

            Object.keys(parentAnnotations).forEach(key => {
                if (parentAnnotations.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
                    if (!extendedConfig.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
                        extendedConfig[key] = parentAnnotations[key];
                        annotations[0][key] = '';
                    } else {
                        if (extendedConfig[key] === parentAnnotations[key]){
                             annotations[0][key] = '';
                        }
                    }
                }
            });
        }
        return Component(extendedConfig)(target);
    };
}

Example usage:

First implement the parent component as usual (myparent.component.ts):

import { Component, Output, EventEmitter, Input } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
    selector: 'my-component',
    templateUrl: 'my.component.html'
})
export class MyParentComponent implements OnInit {
    @Input() someInput: Array<any>;
    @Output() onChange: EventEmitter<any> = new EventEmitter();

    constructor(
        public formatting: FormattingService
    ) {
    }

    ngOnInit() {

    }

    onClick() {
        this.onChange.emit();
    }
}

After that implement child component which inherit the parent component:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { ExtendedComponent } from './extendedcomponent.decorator';
import { MyParentComponent } from './myparent.component';


@ExtendedComponent ({
    templateUrl: 'mychild.component.html'
})

export class MyChildComponent extends MyParentComponent {
}

Note: This is not officially documented and may not work in many cases. I hope that it will help somebody else, but use it at your own risk.