diff --git a/packages/language-service/ivy/language_service.ts b/packages/language-service/ivy/language_service.ts
index d6945cc75b..82e3b75d9f 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/ivy/language_service.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/ivy/language_service.ts
@@ -32,18 +32,6 @@ export class LanguageService {
   constructor(project: ts.server.Project, private readonly tsLS: ts.LanguageService) {
     this.parseConfigHost = new LSParseConfigHost(project.projectService.host);
     this.options = parseNgCompilerOptions(project, this.parseConfigHost);
-
-    // Projects loaded into the Language Service often include test files which are not part of the
-    // app's main compilation unit, and these test files often include inline NgModules that declare
-    // components from the app. These declarations conflict with the main declarations of such
-    // components in the app's NgModules. This conflict is not normally present during regular
-    // compilation because the app and the tests are part of separate compilation units.
-    //
-    // As a temporary mitigation of this problem, we instruct the compiler to ignore classes which
-    // are not exported. In many cases, this ensures the test NgModules are ignored by the compiler
-    // and only the real component declaration is used.
-    this.options.compileNonExportedClasses = false;
-
     this.strategy = createTypeCheckingProgramStrategy(project);
     this.adapter = new LanguageServiceAdapter(project);
     this.compilerFactory = new CompilerFactory(this.adapter, this.strategy, this.options);
@@ -213,6 +201,17 @@ function parseNgCompilerOptions(
     project.setProjectErrors(errors);
   }
 
+  // Projects loaded into the Language Service often include test files which are not part of the
+  // app's main compilation unit, and these test files often include inline NgModules that declare
+  // components from the app. These declarations conflict with the main declarations of such
+  // components in the app's NgModules. This conflict is not normally present during regular
+  // compilation because the app and the tests are part of separate compilation units.
+  //
+  // As a temporary mitigation of this problem, we instruct the compiler to ignore classes which
+  // are not exported. In many cases, this ensures the test NgModules are ignored by the compiler
+  // and only the real component declaration is used.
+  options.compileNonExportedClasses = false;
+
   return options;
 }