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This allows Closure compiler to tree shake unused constructor calls to `NgModuleFactory`, which is otherwise considered side-effectful. The Angular compiler generates factory objects which are exported but typically not used, as they are only needed for compatibility with View Engine. This results in top-level constructor calls, such as: ```typescript export const FooNgFactory = new NgModuleFactory(Foo); ``` `NgModuleFactory` has a side-effecting constructor, so this statement cannot be tree shaken, even if `FooNgFactory` is never imported. The `NgModuleFactory` continues to reference its associated `NgModule` and prevents the module and all its unused dependencies from being tree shaken. This effectively prevents all components from being tree shaken, making Closure builds significantly larger than they should be. The fix here is to wrap `NgModuleFactory` constructor with `noSideEffects(() => /* ... */)`, which tricks the Closure compiler into assuming that the invoked function has no side effects. This allows it to tree-shake unused `NgModuleFactory()` constructors when they aren't imported. Since the factory can be removed, the module can also be removed (if nothing else references it), thus tree shaking unused components as expected. PR Close #38147
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