Summary

Angular's @defer block is supposed to lazy-load any standalone component that appears only inside it — the user gets import().then(m => m.X) instead of an eager import at the top of the file. OXC currently emits these references through the regular dependencies factory, so @defer parses correctly but does not actually defer: the deferred component lands in the initial bundle and the lazy boundary is lost.

This is the default ngc behavior and is not opt-in via @Component.deferredImports — the recent bb2735b commit added the explicit-deferredImports path but the implicit detection is still missing.

Reference behavior

ngc at packages/compiler-cli/src/ngtsc/annotations/component/src/handler.ts:2344-2475 (collectDeferredSymbols / surrounding logic):

1. Walks the component's template AST and collects every standalone import (scope.directives, scope.pipes).
2. For each import, checks whether all references appear inside DeferredBlock nodes — if so, the import is added to allDeferredDecls.
3. Routes those imports through DeferBlockDepsEmitMode.PerComponent (or PerBlock for fine-grained mode), producing lazy import().then(...) resolvers instead of regular dependency entries.
4. The normal dependencies factory is built from the non-deferred imports only.

Test that demonstrates the gap (in napi/angular-compiler/test/analog-compat/component.spec.ts:3262):

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { LazyCmp } from './lazy';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-parent',
  imports: [LazyCmp],
  template: '@defer { <app-lazy/> }',
})
export class Parent {}

Expected output (matching ngc):

ɵcmp = ɵɵdefineComponent({
  ...,
  dependencies: ɵɵgetComponentDepsFactory(Parent, []),
  deferBlockDependencies: [() => import('./lazy').then(m => m.LazyCmp)],
});

Current OXC output:

ɵcmp = ɵɵdefineComponent({
  ...,
  dependencies: ɵɵgetComponentDepsFactory(Parent, [LazyCmp]),  // eager
});

Required work

1. Defer-only detection — extend the existing template walk in crates/oxc_angular_compiler/src/component/defer_resolver.rs to flag each imports: [...] entry that is referenced only inside DeferredBlock AST nodes.
2. Route to lazy emit — currently defer_resolver.rs only handles @Component.deferredImports. Generalize it to also accept implicitly-deferred imports from step 1.
3. Emit deferBlockDependencies — wire the lazy import().then(m => m.X) resolver into the defineComponent emit. Use original export name (not local alias) — see napi/angular-compiler/test/analog-compat/component.spec.ts:3284 for the aliased-import case.
4. Default-import shape — m.default rather than m.X for default-imported components — covered by napi/angular-compiler/test/analog-compat/component.spec.ts:3312.

Tests

The four currently-failing tests under @defer dependency import shape in component.spec.ts (3262, 3284, 3312, plus the @defer inside @switch/@case cases at 1764-area) cover the matrix.

Reference

• ngc impl: packages/compiler-cli/src/ngtsc/annotations/component/src/handler.ts:1312 (DeferBlockDepsEmitMode.PerComponent), :2344-2475 (allDeferredDecls collection)
• DefersBlock AST: packages/compiler/src/render3/r3_ast.ts
• OXC defer entry: crates/oxc_angular_compiler/src/component/defer_resolver.rs (added in feat(defer): emit lazy resolver and async metadata for @Component.deferredImports #307)
• Related upstream commit: bb2735b feat(defer): emit lazy resolver and async metadata for @Component.deferredImports (#307) — explicit-deferredImports path; this issue covers the implicit case