feat: Support Angular esbuild-builder to build Ionic production app

[shessafridi]

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Describe the Feature Request

Ionic doesn't support the esbuild based Angular builder which is the default now for Angular 17 apps. When using the new builder the application doesn't run and throws a bunch of files now found errors.

Describe the Use Case

We are forced to use the old builder with long build times and slow refreshes when using Ionic.

Describe Preferred Solution

Ionic should support the new esbuild based builder as it is the default for Angular now

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[hakimio]

It does support esbuild if you use the new standalone Ionic components.

EDIT: Here is a esbuild demo project.

[liamdebeasi]

Hey there,

@hakimio is correct. We support ESBuild when using Ionic standalone components. Ionic components using the IonicModule approach will not work with ESBuild because they cannot be statically analyzed.

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