Currently developers can use the `By` class to construct common
`DebugElement` query predicates. e.g. `By.directive(MyDirective)`.
The `directive()` and `all()` predicates are currently returning
a predicate that works for `DebugElement` nodes. This return type
is too strict since the predicate is not specific to `DebugElement`
instances and can also apply to `DebugNode` instances.
Meaning that developers are currently able to use the `directive()`
predicate when using `queryAllNodes()`. This is a common practice
but will break when the project is compiled with TypeScript's
`--strictFunctionTypes` flag as the `DebugElement` predicate type
is not assignable to predicates for `DebugNode`. In order to make
these predicates usable with `--strictFuntionTypes` enabled, we
adjust the predicate type to reflect what is actually needed for
evaluation of the predicate.
PR Close#30993
Prior to this commit, we were pulling DebugNode and DebugElement
into production builds because BrowserModule automatically pulled
in NgProbe and thus getDebugNode. In Ivy, this is not necessary
because Ivy has its own set of debug utilities. We should use these
existing tools instead of NgProbe.
This commit adds an Ivy switch so we do not pull in NgProbe utilities
when running with Ivy. This saves us ~8KB in prod builds.
PR Close#30130
BREAKING CHANGE: `NgProbeToken` has been removed from `@angular/platform-browser` as it was deprecated since v4. Import it from `@angular/core` instead.
PR Close#18760
