With this change we enable Webpack's filesystem cache, this important because `terser-webpack-plugin`, `css-minimizer-webpack-plugin` and `copy-webpack-plugin` all use Webpacks' caching API to avoid additional processing during the 2nd cold build.
This changes causes `node_modules` to be treated as immutable. Webpack will avoid hashing and timestamping them, assume the version is unique and will use it as a snapshot.
To opt-in using the experimental persistent build cache use the`NG_PERSISTENT_BUILD_CACHE` environment variable.
```
NG_PERSISTENT_BUILD_CACHE=1 ng serve
```
The virtualfs Host was only used for exist and directory checks during asset and file replacement option normalization within the browser and dev-server builders.
This is another feature that we mentioned in the Eliminate Render Blocking Requests RFC (#18730)
Inlining of critical CSS is turned off by default. To opt-in this feature set `inlineCritical` to `true`.
Example:
```json
"configurations": {
"production": {
"fileReplacements": [
{
"replace": "src/environments/environment.ts",
"with": "src/environments/environment.prod.ts"
}
],
"optimization": {
"styles": {
"minify": true,
"inlineCritical": true,
}
},
```
To learn more about critical CSS see;
https://web.dev/defer-non-critical-csshttps://web.dev/extract-critical-css/
In a future version of the Angular CLI `inlineCritical` will be enabled by default.
Closes: #17966Closes: #11395Closes: #19445
Remove the manually maintained schema.d.ts from the browser builder, and use
the Schema JSON file to generate it. This had a lot of repercussions around
the whole build-angular code base and the different interfaces that were
manually kept.
