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

[hakimio]

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Describe the Feature Request

In v15 Angular introduced experimental esbuild support. It's supposed to significantly improve production bundle build times. Unfortunately it doesn't work with "Ionic Angular" because Ionic dynamically imports components via runtime evaluation.

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Describe the Use Case

Faster CI builds.

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[liamdebeasi]

Thanks for the report. We do not have plans to add esbuild support at this time since it is experimental in Angular. However, we do have plans in the future to offer a way of using Ionic components without dynamically importing them. That should allow developers to test out the experimental esbuild support without Ionic needing to support any experimental APIs internally.

I am going to close this, but we hope to share more on the non-dynamic import solution soon.

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