This is needed as otherwise under Bazel it will fail with `Angular Compiler was detected but it was an instance of the wrong class.` when not using the linker since node_modules will be linked to `external/npm`. Under Bazel `preserveSymlinks` is to be set to true, however with the current behaviour this doesn't effect resolveLoader.
Refs #16193
This detects and filters out error messages about duplicate 3rdpartylicenses.txt. This is a short-term fix intended to get us to 9.0.x release while a follow up effort will work to properly fix this bug. Left a TODO to remove this filter once a fix is ready.
Certain node packages depend on native bindings which cannot be bundled, with this fix we add a way to exclude these from being processed by the bundler.
Closes: #16348
All locale i18n options now support an object form which allows a base HREF to be defined for the locale. Each locale can now optionally define a custom base HREF that will be combined with the base HREF defined for the build configuration. By default if the shorthand form for the locale is used or the field is not present in the longhand form, the locale code will be used as the base HREF. To disable automatic augmentation a base HREF value of an empty string (`""`) can be used. This will prevent anything from being added to the existing base HREF.
For common scenarios, the shorthand form will result in the preferred and recommended outcome of each built locale variant of the application containing a defined base HREF containing the locale code.
Allow version "0.0.0" for integration testing in the angular/angular repository with the generated development @angular/core npm package which is versioned "0.0.0".
This is a pre-req for https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/33927 which runs integration tests against the bazel generated npm packages.
A target of es2015 was previously assumed when using differential loading. This could result in erroneously downleveling an es2016+ output file instead of generating a new es5 output file.
