The other similar interfaces were renamed in https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/41119,
but this one was left since it had existed before Ivy. It looks like the interface was
never actually exposed on npm so it is safe to rename this one too.
PR Close#41316
Now that other values were removed from `R3ResolvedDependencyType`,
its meaning can now be inferred from the other properties in the
`R3DeclareDependencyMetadata` type. This commit removes this enum
and updates the code to work without it.
PR Close#41231
This instruction was created to work around a problem with injecting a
`ChangeDetectorRef` into a pipe. See #31438. This fix required special
metadata for when the thing being injected was a `ChangeDetectorRef`.
Now this is handled by adding a flag `InjectorFlags.ForPipe` to the
`ɵɵdirectiveInject()` call, which avoids the need to special test_cases
`ChangeDetectorRef` in the generated code.
PR Close#41231
TypeScript 4.2 has changed its emitted syntax for synthetic constructors
when using `downlevelIteration`, which affects ES5 bundles that have
been downleveled from ES2015 bundles. This is typically the case for UMD
bundles in the APF spec, as they are generated by downleveling the
ESM2015 bundle into ES5. ngcc needs to detect the new syntax in order to
correctly identify synthesized constructor functions in ES5 bundles.
Fixes#41298
PR Close#41305
Th `ɵɵFactoryDef` type will appear in published libraries, via their typings
files, to describe what type dependencies a DI factory has. The parameters
on this type are used by tooling such as the Language Service to understand
the DI dependencies of the class being created by the factory.
This commit moves the type to the `public_definitions.ts` file alongside
the other types that have a similar role, and it renames it to `ɵɵFactoryDeclaration`
to align it with the other declaration types such as `ɵɵDirectiveDeclaration`
and so on.
PR Close#41119
These types are only used in the generated typings files to provide
information to the Angular compiler in order that it can compile code
in downstream libraries and applications.
This commit aliases these types to `unknown` to avoid exposing the
previous alias types such as `ɵɵDirectiveDef`, which are internal to
the compiler.
PR Close#41119
This commit complements the support for the `__spreadArray` helper that
was added in microsoft/TypeScript#41523. The prior helpers `__spread`
and `__spreadArrays` used the `__read` helper internally, but the helper
is now emitted as an argument to `__spreadArray` so ngcc now needs to
support evaluating it statically. The real implementation of `__read`
reads an iterable into an array, but for ngcc's static evaluation
support it is sufficient to only deal with arrays as is. Additionally,
the optional `n` parameter is not supported as that is only emitted for
array destructuring syntax, which ngcc does not have to support.
PR Close#41201
In TypeScript 4.2 the `__spread` and `__spreadArrays` helpers were both
replaced by the new helper function `__spreadArray` in
microsoft/TypeScript#41523. These helpers may be used in downleveled
JavaScript bundles that ngcc has to process, so ngcc has the ability to
statically detect these helpers and provide evaluation logic for them.
Because Angular is adopting support for TypeScript 4.2 it becomes
possible for libraries to be compiled by TypeScript 4.2 and thus ngcc
has to add support for the `__spreadArray` helper. The deprecated
`__spread` and `__spreadArrays` helpers are not affected by this change.
Closes#40394
PR Close#41201
The recently introduced typings-only mode in ngcc would incorrectly
write compiled JavaScript files if typings-only mode was requested, in
case the typings of the entry-point had already been processed in a
prior run of ngcc. The corresponding format property for which the
JavaScript files were written were not marked as processed, though, as
the typings-only mode excluded the format property itself from being
marked as processed. Consequently, subsequent runs of ngcc would not
consider the entry-point to have been processed and recompile the
JavaScript bundle once more, resulting in duplicate ngcc imports.
Fixes#41198
PR Close#41209
BREAKING CHANGE:
Switching default of `emitDistinctChangesOnlyDefaultValue`
which changes the default behavior and may cause some applications which
rely on the incorrect behavior to fail.
`emitDistinctChangesOnly` flag has also been deprecated and will be
removed in a future major release.
The previous implementation would fire changes `QueryList.changes.subscribe`
whenever the `QueryList` was recomputed. This resulted in an artificially
high number of change notifications, as it is possible that recomputing
`QueryList` results in the same list. When the `QueryList` gets recomputed
is an implementation detail, and it should not be the thing that determines
how often change event should fire.
Unfortunately, fixing the behavior outright caused too many existing
applications to fail. For this reason, Angular considers this fix a
breaking fix and has introduced a flag in `@ContentChildren` and
`@ViewChildren`, that controls the behavior.
```
export class QueryCompWithStrictChangeEmitParent {
@ContentChildren('foo', {
// This option is the new default with this change.
emitDistinctChangesOnly: true,
})
foos!: QueryList<any>;
}
```
For backward compatibility before v12
`emitDistinctChangesOnlyDefaultValue` was set to `false. This change
changes the default to `true`.
PR Close#41121
This change marks all relevant define* callsites as pure, causing the compiler to
emmit either @__PURE__ or @pureOrBreakMyCode annotation based on whether we are
compiling code annotated for closure or terser.
This change is needed in g3 where we don't run build optimizer but we
need the code to be annotated for the closure compiler.
Additionally this change allows for simplification of CLI and build optimizer as they
will no longer need to rewrite the generated code (there are still other places where
a build optimizer rewrite will be necessary so we can't remove it, we can only simplify it).
PR Close#41096
In Angular programs, changing a file may require other files to be
emitted as well due to implicit NgModule dependencies. For example, if
the selector of a directive is changed then all components that have
that directive in their compilation scope need to be recompiled, as the
change of selector may affect the directive matching results.
Until now, the compiler solved this problem using a single dependency
graph. The implicit NgModule dependencies were represented in this
graph, such that a changed file would correctly also cause other files
to be re-emitted. This approach is limited in a few ways:
1. The file dependency graph is used to determine whether it is safe to
reuse the analysis data of an Angular decorated class. This analysis
data is invariant to unrelated changes to the NgModule scope, but
because the single dependency graph also tracked the implicit
NgModule dependencies the compiler had to consider analysis data as
stale far more often than necessary.
2. It is typical for a change to e.g. a directive to not affect its
public API—its selector, inputs, outputs, or exportAs clause—in which
case there is no need to re-emit all declarations in scope, as their
compilation output wouldn't have changed.
This commit implements a mechanism by which the compiler is able to
determine the impact of a change by comparing it to the prior
compilation. To achieve this, a new graph is maintained that tracks all
public API information of all Angular decorated symbols. During an
incremental compilation this information is compared to the information
that was captured in the most recently succeeded compilation. This
determines the exact impact of the changes to the public API, which
is then used to determine which files need to be re-emitted.
Note that the file dependency graph remains, as it is still used to
track the dependencies of analysis data. This graph does no longer track
the implicit NgModule dependencies, which allows for better reuse of
analysis data.
These changes also fix a bug where template type-checking would fail to
incorporate changes made to a transitive base class of a
directive/component. This used to be a problem because transitive base
classes were not recorded as a transitive dependency in the file
dependency graph, such that prior type-check blocks would erroneously
be reused.
This commit also fixes an incorrectness where a change to a declaration
in NgModule `A` would not cause the declarations in NgModules that
import from NgModule `A` to be re-emitted. This was intentionally
incorrect as otherwise the performance of incremental rebuilds would
have been far worse. This is no longer a concern, as the compiler is now
able to only re-emit when actually necessary.
Fixes#34867Fixes#40635Closes#40728
PR Close#40947
Ngcc uses the `paths` property to compute the potential base-paths
for packages that are being processed. If the `paths` contain a wildcard
`*` within a path segment, ngcc was not finding the base-path correctly.
Now when a wildcard is found, there is an additional search to look for
paths that might match the wildcard.
Fixes#41014
PR Close#41033
Previously, when `ngcc` encountered an entry-point with a format-path
that pointed to a non-existing or empty file it would throw an error and
stop processing the remaining tasks.
In the past, we used to ignore such format-paths and continue processing
the rest of the tasks ([see code][1]). This was changed to a hard
failure in 2954d1b5ca. Looking at the code
history, the reason for changing the behavior was an (incorrect)
assumption that the condition could not fail. This assumption failed to
take into account the case where a 3rd-party library has an invalid
format-path in its `package.json`. This is an issue with the library,
but it should not prevent `ngcc` from processing other
packages/entry-points/formats.
This commit fixes this by reporting the task as failed but not throwing
an error, thus allowing `ngcc` to continue processing other tasks.
[1]: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/3077c9a1f89c5bd75fb96c16e/packages/compiler-cli/ngcc/src/main.ts#L124Fixes#40965
PR Close#40985
Some tools (such as Language Server and ng-packagr) only care about
the processed typings generated by ngcc. Forcing these tools to process
the JavaScript files as well has two disadvantages:
First, unnecessary work is being done, which is time consuming.
But more importantly, it is not always possible to know how the final bundling
tools will want the processed JavaScript to be configured. For example,
the CLI would prefer the `--create-ivy-entry-points` option but this would
break non-CLI build tooling.
This commit adds a new option (`--typings-only` on the command line, and
`typingsOnly` via programmatic API) that instructs ngcc to only render changes
to the typings files for the entry-points that it finds, and not to write any
JavaScript files.
In order to process the typings, a JavaScript format will need to be analysed, but
it will not be rendered to disk. When using this option, it is best to offer ngcc a
wide range of possible JavaScript formats to choose from, and it will use the
first format that it finds. Ideally you would configure it to try the `ES2015` FESM
format first, since this will be the most performant.
Fixes#40969
PR Close#40976
This commit causes imports added by ngtsc's `ImportManager` to have their
TypeScript "original node" set to the generated `ts.ImportDeclaration`
statement.
In g3, the tsickle transformer runs after the Angular transformer and post-
processes Angular's compilation output. One of its post-processing tasks is
to transform generated imports and references to imported symbols from the
commonjs module system to the g3 module system. Part of this transformation
involves recognizing modules with specific metadata and altering references
to symbols from those modules accordingly.
Normally, tsickle can rely on TypeScript's binding for an imported symbol to
find its origin module and thus the correct metadata for the symbol. However
the Angular transform generates new synthetic imports which don't have such
binding information. Angular's imports are always namespace imports of the
form:
```
import * as qualifier 'module/specifier';
```
References to such an import are then of the form `qualifier.SymbolName`.
To process such imports properly, tsickle needs to be able to associate the
reference to `qualifier` in the expression `qualifer.SymbolName` with the
`ts.ImportDeclaration` statement that defines it. It expects to do this by
looking at the `ts.getOriginalNode()` for the `qualifier` reference, which
should be the `ts.ImportDeclaration`. This commit changes ngtsc's import
generation mechanism to set the original node on `qualifier` identifiers
according to this expectation.
This commit is not tested in the direct compiler tests, since:
1) there is no observable behavior externally from setting the original node
2) we don't have tests that intercept transformer operations (which could be
used to directly assert against the AST nodes)
3) tsickle's published version does not (yet) contain the g3-specific
transformations which rely on the original node and would thus allow the
behavior to be observed.
Instead, we rely on the g3 testing suite to validate the correctness of this
fix. Breaking this functionality would cause g3 compilation errors for
targets, since tsickle would be unable to transform imports correctly.
PR Close#40711
Because the query now has `flags` which specify the mode, the static query
instruction can now be remove. It is simply normal query with `static` flag.
PR Close#40091
When using the `NewEntryPointWriter` we copy unmodified files over to the new
entry-point in addition to writing out the source files that are processed by ngcc.
But we were not copying over associated source-map files for these unmodified
source files, leading to warnings in downstream tooling.
Now we will also copy over source-maps that reside as siblings of unmodified
source files. We have to make sure that the sources of the source-map point
to the correct files, so we also update the `sourceRoot` property of the copied
source-map.
Fixes#40358
PR Close#40429
Previously, if there were path-mapped entry-points, where one contaied the
string of another - for example `worker-client` and `worker` - then the
base paths were incorrectly computed resulting in the wrong package path
for the longer entry-point. This was because, when searching for a matching
base path, the strings were tested using `startsWith()`, whereas we should
only match if the path was contained in a directory from a file-system
point of view.
Now we not only check whether the target path "starts with" the base path
but then also whether the target path is actually contained in the base path
using `fs.relative()`.
Fixes#40352Fixes#40357
PR Close#40376
Now that `ReadonlyFileSystem` and `PathManipulation` interfaces are
available, this commit updates the compiler-cli to use these more
focussed interfaces.
PR Close#40281
The link to the "speeding-up-ngcc-compilation" URL does not exist,
it was removed shortly after it was added, but the link in the ngcc
error message was not updated.
Fixes#39837
PR Close#40285
Prior to this change, the `setClassMetadata` call would be invoked
inside of an IIFE that was marked as pure. This allows the call to be
tree-shaken away in production builds, as the `setClassMetadata` call
is only present to make the original class metadata available to the
testing infrastructure. The pure marker is problematic, though, as the
`setClassMetadata` call does in fact have the side-effect of assigning
the metadata into class properties. This has worked under the assumption
that only build optimization tools perform tree-shaking, however modern
bundlers are also able to elide calls that have been marked pure so this
assumption does no longer hold. Instead, an `ngDevMode` guard is used
which still allows the call to be elided but only by tooling that is
configured to consider `ngDevMode` as constant `false` value.
PR Close#39987
Add a TaggedTemplateExpr to represent tagged template literals in
Angular's syntax tree (more specifically Expression in output_ast.ts).
Also update classes that implement ExpressionVisitor to add support for
tagged template literals in different contexts, such as JIT compilation
and conversion to JS.
Partial support for tagged template literals had already been
implemented to support the $localize tag used by Angular's i18n
framework. Where applicable, this code was refactored to support
arbitrary tags, although completely replacing the i18n-specific support
for the $localize tag with the new generic support for tagged template
literals may not be completely trivial, and is left as future work.
PR Close#39122
Previously, if a trait's analysis step resulted in diagnostics, the trait
would be considered "errored" and no further operations, including register,
would be performed. Effectively, this meant that the compiler would pretend
the class in question was actually undecorated.
However, this behavior is problematic for several reasons:
1. It leads to inaccurate diagnostics being reported downstream.
For example, if a component is put into the error state, for example due to
a template error, the NgModule which declares the component would produce a
diagnostic claiming that the declaration is neither a directive nor a pipe.
This happened because the compiler wouldn't register() the component trait,
so the component would not be recorded as actually being a directive.
2. It can cause incorrect behavior on incremental builds.
This bug is more complex, but the general issue is that if the compiler
fails to associate a component and its module, then incremental builds will
not correctly re-analyze the module when the component's template changes.
Failing to register the component as such is one link in the larger chain of
issues that result in these kinds of issues.
3. It lumps together diagnostics produced during analysis and resolve steps.
This is not causing issues currently as the dependency graph ensures the
right classes are re-analyzed when needed, instead of showing stale
diagnostics. However, the dependency graph was not intended to serve this
role, and could potentially be optimized in ways that would break this
functionality.
This commit removes the concept of an "errored" trait entirely from the
trait system. Instead, analyzed and resolved traits have corresponding (and
separate) diagnostics, in addition to potentially `null` analysis results.
Analysis (but not resolution) diagnostics are carried forward during
incremental build operations. Compilation (emit) is only performed when
a trait reaches the resolved state with no diagnostics.
This change is functionally different than before as the `register` step is
now performed even in the presence of analysis errors, as long as analysis
results are also produced. This fixes problem 1 above, and is part of the
larger solution to problem 2.
PR Close#39923
ngtsc has a robust suite of testing utilities, designed for in-memory
testing of a TypeScript compiler. Previously these utilities lived in the
`test` directory for the compiler-cli package.
This commit moves those utilities to an `ngtsc/testing` package, enabling
them to be depended on separately and opening the door for using them from
the upcoming language server testing infrastructure.
As part of this refactoring, the `fake_core` package (a lightweight API
replacement for @angular/core) is expanded to include functionality needed
for Language Service test use cases.
PR Close#39594
This reverts commit 561c0f81a0.
The original commit provided a quick escape from an already terminal
situation by killing the process if the PID in the lockfile was not
found in the list of processes running on the current machine.
But this broke use-cases where the node_modules was being shared between
multiple machines (or more commonly Docker containers on the same actual
machine).
Fixes#38875
PR Close#39435
Previously, UMD/CommonJS class inline declarations of the form:
```ts
exports.Foo = (function() { function Foo(); return Foo; })();
```
were capturing the whole IIFE as the implementation, rather than
the inner class (i.e. `function Foo() {}` in this case). This caused
the interpreter to break when it was trying to access such an export,
since it would try to evaluate the IIFE rather than treating it as a class
declaration.
PR Close#39346
Previously, inline exports of the form `exports.foo = <implementation>;` were
being interpreted (by the ngtsc `PartialInterpeter`) as `Reference` objects.
This is not what is desired since it prevents the value of the export
from being unpacked, such as when analyzing `NgModule` declarations:
```
exports.directives = [Directive1, Directive2];
@NgImport({declarations: [exports.directives]})
class AppModule {}
```
In this example the interpreter would think that `exports.directives`
was a reference rather than an array that needs to be unpacked.
This bug was picked up by the ngcc-validation repository. See
https://github.com/angular/ngcc-validation/pull/1990 and
https://circleci.com/gh/angular/ngcc-validation/17130
PR Close#39267
When ngcc is configured to run with the `--use-program-dependencies`
flag, as is the case in the CLI's asynchronous processing, it will scan
all source files in the program, starting from the program's root files
as configured in the tsconfig. Each individual root file could
potentially rescan files that had already been scanned for an earlier
root file, causing a severe performance penalty if the number of root
files is large. This would be the case if glob patterns are used in the
"include" specification of a tsconfig file.
This commit avoids the performance penalty by keeping track of the files
that have been scanned across all root files, such that no source file
is scanned multiple times.
Fixes#39240
PR Close#39254
Previously, any declarations that were defined "inline" were not
recognised by the `UmdReflectionHost`.
For example, the following syntax was completely unrecognized:
```ts
var Foo_1;
exports.Foo = Foo_1 = (function() {
function Foo() {}
return Foo;
})();
exports.Foo = Foo_1 = __decorate(SomeDecorator, Foo);
```
Such inline classes were ignored and not processed by ngcc.
This lack of processing led to failures in Ivy applications that relied
on UMD formats of libraries such as `syncfusion/ej2-angular-ui-components`.
Now all known inline UMD exports are recognized and processed accordingly.
Fixes#38947
PR Close#38959
Previously these tests were checking multiple specific expression
types. The new helper function is more general and will also support
`PropertyAccessExpression` nodes for `InlineDeclaration` types.
PR Close#38959
Previously the `ConcreteDeclaration` and `InlineDeclaration` had
different properties for the underlying node type. And the `InlineDeclaration`
did not store a value that represented its declaration.
It turns out that a natural declaration node for an inline type is the
expression. For example in UMD/CommonJS this would be the `exports.<name>`
property access node.
So this expression is now used for the `node` of `InlineDeclaration` types
and the `expression` property is dropped.
To support this the codebase has been refactored to use a new `DeclarationNode`
type which is a union of `ts.Declaration|ts.Expression` instead of `ts.Declaration`
throughout.
PR Close#38959
This makes these tests more resilient to changes in the test code
structure. For example switching from
```
var SomeClass = <implementation>;
exports.SomeClass = SomeClass;
```
to
```
exports.SomeClass = <implementation>;
```
PR Close#38959
Previously `getDeclaration()` would only return the first node that matched
the name passed in and then assert the predicate on this single node.
It also only considered a subset of possible declaration types that we might
care about.
Now the function will parse the whole tree collecting an array of all the
nodes that match the name. It then filters this array based on the predicate
and only errors if the filtered array is empty.
This makes this function much more resilient to more esoteric code formats
such as UMD.
PR Close#38959
Sometimes UMD exports appear in the following form:
```
exports.MyClass = alias1 = alias2 = <<declaration>>
```
Previously the declaration of the export would have been captured
as `alias1 = alias2 = <<declaration>>`, which the `PartialInterpreter`
would have failed on, since it cannot handle assignments.
Now we skip over these aliases capturing only the `<<declaration>>`
expression.
Fixes#38947
PR Close#38959
UMD files export values by assigning them to an `exports` variable.
When evaluating expressions ngcc was failing to cope with expressions
like `exports.MyComponent`.
This commit fixes the `UmdReflectionHost.getDeclarationOfIdentifier()`
method to map the `exports` variable to the current source file.
PR Close#38959
The `SIMPLE_CLASS_FILE` contained a `ChildClass` that had an
internal aliases implementation and extended a `SuperClass` base
class. The call to `__extends` was using the wrong argument for
the child class.
PR Close#38959
This is a precursor to introducing the Angular linker. As an initial
step, a compiler option to configure the compilation mode is introduced.
This option is initially internal until the linker is considered ready.
PR Close#38938
This commit refactors the `ExpressionTranslatorVisitor` so that it
is not tied directly to the TypeScript AST. Instead it uses generic
`TExpression` and `TStatement` types that are then converted
to concrete types by the `TypeScriptAstFactory`.
This paves the way for a `BabelAstFactory` that can be used to
generate Babel AST nodes instead of TypeScript, which will be
part of the new linker tool.
PR Close#38775
When the target of the compiler is ES2015 or newer then we should
be generating `let` and `const` variable declarations rather than `var`.
PR Close#38775
In #38666 we changed how ngcc deals with type expressions, where it
would now always emit the original type expression into the generated
code as a "local" type value reference instead of synthesizing new
imports using an "imported" type value reference. This was done as a fix
to properly deal with renamed symbols, however it turns out that the
compiler has special handling for certain imported symbols, e.g.
`ChangeDetectorRef` from `@angular/core`. The "local" type value
reference prevented this special logic from being hit, resulting in
incorrect compilation of pipe factories.
This commit fixes the issue by manually inspecting the import of the
type expression, in order to return an "imported" type value reference.
By manually inspecting the import we continue to handle renamed symbols.
Fixes#38883
PR Close#38892
Common AST formats such as TS and Babel do not use a separate
node for comments, but instead attach comments to other AST nodes.
Previously this was worked around in TS by creating a `NotEmittedStatement`
AST node to attach the comment to. But Babel does not have this facility,
so it will not be a viable approach for the linker.
This commit refactors the output AST, to remove the `CommentStmt` and
`JSDocCommentStmt` nodes. Instead statements have a collection of
`leadingComments` that are rendered/attached to the final AST nodes
when being translated or printed.
PR Close#38811
In the integration test suite of ngcc, we load a set of files from
`node_modules` into memory. This includes the `typescript` package and
`@angular` scoped packages, which account for a large number of large
files that needs to be loaded from disk. This commit moves this work
to the top-level, such that it doesn't have to be repeated in all tests.
PR Close#38840
Recent optimizations to ngcc have significantly reduced the total time
it takes to process `node_modules`, to such extend that sharding across
multiple processes has become less effective. Previously, running
ngcc asynchronously would allow for up to 8 workers to be allocated,
however these workers have to repeat work that could otherwise be shared.
Because ngcc is now able to reuse more shared computations, the overhead
of multiple workers is increased and therefore becomes less effective.
As an additional benefit, having fewer workers requires less memory and
less startup time.
To give an idea, using the following test setup:
```bash
npx @angular/cli new perf-test
cd perf-test
yarn ng add @angular/material
./node_modules/.bin/ngcc --properties es2015 module main \
--first-only --create-ivy-entry-points
```
We observe the following figures on CI:
| | 10.1.1 | PR #38840 |
| ----------------- | --------- | --------- |
| Sync | 85s | 25s |
| Async (8 workers) | 22s | 16s |
| Async (4 workers) | - | 11s |
In addition to changing the default number of workers, ngcc will now
use the environment variable `NGCC_MAX_WORKERS` that may be configured
to either reduce or increase the number of workers.
PR Close#38840
ngcc creates typically two `ts.Program` instances for each entry-point,
one for processing sources and another one for processing the typings.
The creation of these programs is somewhat expensive, as it concerns
module resolution and parsing of source files.
This commit implements several layers of caching to optimize the
creation of programs:
1. A shared module resolution cache across all entry-points within a
single invocation of ngcc. Both the sources and typings program
benefit from this cache.
2. Sharing the parsed `ts.SourceFile` for a single entry-point between
the sources and typings program.
3. Sharing parsed `ts.SourceFile`s of TypeScript's default libraries
across all entry-points within a single invocation. Some of these
default library typings are large and therefore expensive to parse,
so sharing the parsed source files across all entry-points offers
a significant performance improvement.
Using a bare CLI app created using `ng new` + `ng add @angular/material`,
the above changes offer a 3-4x improvement in ngcc's processing time
when running synchronously and ~2x improvement for asynchronous runs.
PR Close#38840
If a type has been renamed when it was exported, we need to
reference the external public alias name rather than the internal
original name for the type. Otherwise we will try to import the
type by its internal name, which is not publicly accessible.
Fixes#38238
PR Close#38666
Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection
capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through
delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output.
More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue
outlining the problem: #38453.
Fixes#38453.
PR Close#38463
Pete Bacon Darwin
JoostK
Misko Hevery
Igor Minar
George Kalpakas
Alex Rickabaugh
Joey Perrott
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Paul Gschwendtner