With TS 3.7, these examples were running into the error below (e.g. on https://circleci.com/gh/angular/angular/574906#tests/containers/0):
```
============== AIO example output for: /home/circleci/ng/aio/content/examples/observables/
running: yarn tsc --project ./
$ /home/circleci/ng/aio/content/examples/observables/node_modules/.bin/tsc --project ./
../../../tools/examples/shared/node_modules/protractor/built/index.d.ts(5,10): error TS2440: Import declaration conflicts with local declaration of 'PluginConfig'.
../../../tools/examples/shared/node_modules/protractor/built/index.d.ts(5,24): error TS2440: Import declaration conflicts with local declaration of 'ProtractorPlugin'.
error Command failed with exit code 2.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
completed: yarn tsc --project ./
```
This happened because of https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5348.
It's unclear why this typings problem does not affect `ng e2e` runs, and only affects `tsc` runs.
For now it seems sensible to alter the tests to compile only the app and not the e2e, since the intent of https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/2cc954d5a54b2d9a0bee3679f6d4f9473389f32e was never to verify the correctness of the e2e in the first place.
We still need a release of protractor that supports TS 3.7 though, but at least it doesn't seem to block our update proper.
PR Close#33717
Filipe Silva
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