Currently, when importing `BrowserAnimationsModule`, Angular uses `AnimationRenderer`
as the renderer. When the root view is removed, the `AnimationRenderer` defers the actual
work to the `TransitionAnimationEngine` to do this, and the `TransitionAnimationEngine`
doesn't actually remove the DOM node, but just calls `markElementAsRemoved()`.
The actual DOM node is not removed until `TransitionAnimationEngine` "flushes".
Unfortunately, though, that "flush" will never happen, since the root view is being
destroyed and there will be no more flushes.
This commit adds `flush()` call when the root view is being destroyed.
BREAKING CHANGE:
DOM elements are now correctly removed when the root view is removed. It
is possible that tests could be accidentally relying on the old behavior by
trying to find an element that was not removed in a previous test. If
this is the case, the failing tests should be updated to ensure they
have proper setup code which initializes elements they rely on.
PR Close#41001
This patch removes the need to include the Web Animations API Polyfill
(web-animations-js) as a dependency. Angular will now fallback to using
CSS Keyframes in the event that `element.animate` is no longer supported
by the browser.
In the event that an application does use `AnimationBuilder` then the
web-animations-js polyfill is required to enable programmatic,
position-based access to an animation.
Closes#17496
PR Close#22143
