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Roll forward of #38147. 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, making Closure builds significantly larger than necessary. 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 dependencies as expected. The one notable edge case is for lazy loaded modules. Internally, lazy loading is done as a side effect when the lazy script is evaluated. For Angular, this side effect is registering the `NgModule`. In Ivy this is done by the `NgModuleFactory` constructor, so lazy loaded modules **cannot** have their top-level `NgModuleFactory` constructor call tree shaken. We handle this case by looking for the `id` field on `@NgModule` annotations. All lazy loaded modules include an `id`. When this `id` is found, the `NgModuleFactory` is generated **without** with `noSideEffects()` call, so Closure will not tree shake it and the module will lazy-load correctly. PR Close #38320
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