🐛 Trick Closure compiler to preserve reflow codepath (ampproject#19367)

Enriqe · Nov 28, 2018 · b40bea8 · b40bea8
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diff --git a/extensions/amp-gwd-animation/0.1/amp-gwd-animation-impl.js b/extensions/amp-gwd-animation/0.1/amp-gwd-animation-impl.js
@@ -551,5 +551,10 @@ export class AmpGwdRuntimeService {
  * @param {!Element} element
  */
 function reflow(element) {
-  return element./*OK*/offsetWidth;
+  // exporting global to trick Closure into thinking this function has side
+  // effects.
+  const globalRef = '__AMP_GWD_TEMP';
+  // Reading `offsetWidth` is what actually causes reflow.
+  self[globalRef] = element./*OK*/offsetWidth;
+  delete self[globalRef];
 }