During the migration of Angular and Angular Material from version 13.2.6 to 14.2.2 I have faced below issues:
error TS2307: Cannot find module '@angular/material/core/common-behaviors/constructor' or its corresponding type declarations.
error TS2345: Argument of type 'typeof MatInputBase' is not assignable to parameter of type '_AbstractConstructor'. Types of construct signatures are incompatible.
which affected every file where Constructor and AbstractConstructor were used.
I have found similar topic but it seems just the error message is similar but none of the suggestions was helpful to me.
As usually, the error message is pretty clear - "Cannot find module" means the module is not there :)
In order to find out if this is true, I went to node_modules folder and then @angular/material/core/ just to confirm there is no common-behaviors folder there. However in the index.t.ts file inside core module I could find below declarations:
export declare type _Constructor<T> = new (...args: any[]) => T;
export declare type _AbstractConstructor<T = object> = abstract new (...args: any[]) => T;
It basically means that the code was moved out around during the refactoring and some things changed place. In order to fix my issue I simple needed to change the imports to correct path, from:
import { AbstractConstructor, Constructor } from '@angular/material/core/common-behaviors/constructor';
to:
import { _AbstractConstructor, _Constructor } from '@angular/material/core';
Obviously the code needs to be adjusted a bit, because now these classes are coming with _ in the front of the name.
Easy, but not obvious, especially it wasn't mentioned in the Angular Migration guide neither managed by upgrade script itself.