Decorated private propoerty flagged as unused with `noUnusedLocals:true`

noUnusedLocals:true

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

@Component({
  selector: 'my-component',
  template: `
    {{text}}
  `,
})
export class MyComponent {
  @Input()
  private text: string;//'text' is declared but never used
}

[andrui]

The problem is really annoying for angular projects. Especially for re-usable components lib when some properties/methods should be private, but they are called only from component’s template. This causes “unused local” error for such a methods/variables. So, if there is no possibility to check templates then the best solution is to introduce some “ignore” comment to avoid compiler errors in such a cases.

[aluanhaddad]

@andrui Just remember that if you ever try to use the angular AOT compiler, which is essentially a subset of typescript, all of your private fields used in template bindings will cause compilation errors and you have to rewrite your code.

This is off topic, since it isn’t typescript at all at that point, but I thought I’d mention it since it seems to nullify the use case for many users.