A brief analysis of the DOM update mechanism in Angular change detection

import { Component, ViewChild, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: [ './app.component.css' ]
})
export class AppComponent  {
  name = 'Empty';

  @ViewChild('textContainer') textContainer: ElementRef;

  normalClick(): void {
    this.name = 'Hello Angular';

    console.log(this.textContainer.nativeElement.innerText);
  }
}

import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';

import { AppModule } from './app/app.module';
import { environment } from './environments/environment';

if (environment.production) {
  enableProdMode();
}

platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule, {
  ngZone: 'noop'
})
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

 */
class ApplicationRef {
    /** @internal */
    constructor(_zone, _injector, _exceptionHandler, _initStatus) {
        this._zone = _zone;
        this._injector = _injector;
        this._exceptionHandler = _exceptionHandler;
        this._initStatus = _initStatus;
        /** @internal */
        this._bootstrapListeners = [];
        this._views = [];
        this._runningTick = false;
        this._stable = true;
        this._destroyed = false;
        this._destroyListeners = [];
        /**
         * Get a list of component types registered to this application.
         * This list is populated even before the component is created.
         */
        this.componentTypes = [];
        /**
         * Get a list of components registered to this application.
         */
        this.components = [];
        this._onMicrotaskEmptySubscription = this._zone.onMicrotaskEmpty.subscribe({
            next: () => {
                this._zone.run(() => {
                    this.tick();
                });
            }
        });
        ...
    }

/**
     * Invoke this method to explicitly process change detection and its side-effects.
     *
     * In development mode, `tick()` also performs a second change detection cycle to ensure that no
     * further changes are detected. If additional changes are picked up during this second cycle,
     * bindings in the app have side-effects that cannot be resolved in a single change detection
     * pass.
     * In this case, Angular throws an error, since an Angular application can only have one change
     * detection pass during which all change detection must complete.
     */
    tick() {
        NG_DEV_MODE && this.warnIfDestroyed();
        if (this._runningTick) {
            const errorMessage = (typeof ngDevMode === 'undefined' || ngDevMode) ?
                'ApplicationRef.tick is called recursively' :
                '';
            throw new RuntimeError(101 /* RuntimeErrorCode.RECURSIVE_APPLICATION_REF_TICK */, errorMessage);
        }
        try {
            this._runningTick = true;
            for (let view of this._views) {
                view.detectChanges();
            }
            if (typeof ngDevMode === 'undefined' || ngDevMode) {
                for (let view of this._views) {
                    view.checkNoChanges();
                }
            }
        }
        catch (e) {
            // Attention: Don't rethrow as it could cancel subscriptions to Observables!
            this._zone.runOutsideAngular(() => this._exceptionHandler.handleError(e));
        }
        finally {
            this._runningTick = false;
        }
    }

}

import { Component, ViewChild, ElementRef, ApplicationRef } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
export class AppComponent  {
  name = 'Empty';

  @ViewChild('textContainer') textContainer: ElementRef = {} as any;

  constructor(private app: ApplicationRef){}

  normalClick(): void {
    this.name = 'Hello Angular';

    console.log(this.textContainer.nativeElement.innerText);

    this.app.tick();
  }
}