The 'animations' field of @Component metadata should be copied directly
into the ngComponentDef for that component and should not pass through
static resolution.
Previously the animations array was statically resolved and then the
values were translated back when generating ngComponentDef.
PR Close#26322
Previously we only removed assignments to `Class.decorators = [];`
if the array was not empty.
Now we also remove calls to `__decorate([])`, similarly.
PR Close#26236
Previously, classes that were declared via variable declarations,
rather than class declarations, were being excluded from the
parsed classes.
PR Close#26236
The most recent Angular distributions have begun to use __decorate instead of Class.decorators.
This prevents `ngcc` from recognizing the classes and then fails to perform the transform to
ivy format.
Example:
```
var ApplicationModule = /** @class */ (function () {
// Inject ApplicationRef to make it eager...
function ApplicationModule(appRef) {
}
ApplicationModule = __decorate([
NgModule({ providers: APPLICATION_MODULE_PROVIDERS }),
__metadata("design:paramtypes", [ApplicationRef])
], ApplicationModule);
return ApplicationModule;
}());
```
Now `ngcc` recognizes `__decorate([...])` declarations and performs its transform.
See FW-379
PR Close#26236
In some formats variables are declared as `var` or `let` and only
assigned a value later in the code.
The ngtsc resolver still needs to be able to resolve this value,
so the host now provides a `host.getVariableValue(declaration)`
method that can do this resolution based on the format.
The hosts make some assumptions about the layout of the
code, so they may only work in the constrained scenarios that
ngcc expects.
PR Close#26236