build: lock file maintenance

See associated pull request for more information.

Closes #31611 as a pr takeover

Author: alan-agius4

packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/javascript-transformer.ts

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ export class JavaScriptTransformer {
         {
           // The below is disable as with Yarn PNP this causes build failures with the below message
           // `Unable to deserialize cloned data`.
-          transferList: process.versions.pnp ? undefined : [data.buffer as ArrayBuffer],
+          transferList: process.versions.pnp ? undefined : [data.buffer],
         },
       )) as Uint8Array;
 

packages/angular/cli/src/command-builder/command-runner.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 import { logging } from '@angular-devkit/core';
 import yargs from 'yargs';
-import { Parser } from 'yargs/helpers';
+import { Parser as yargsParser } from 'yargs/helpers';
 import {
   CommandConfig,
   CommandNames,
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ import {
 import { jsonHelpUsage } from './utilities/json-help';
 import { createNormalizeOptionsMiddleware } from './utilities/normalize-options-middleware';
 
-const yargsParser = Parser as unknown as typeof Parser.default;
-
 export async function runCommand(args: string[], logger: logging.Logger): Promise<number> {
   const {
     $0,

packages/angular_devkit/core/src/virtual-fs/host/buffer.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { TextDecoder, TextEncoder } from 'node:util';
 import { FileBuffer } from './interface';
 
 export function stringToFileBuffer(str: string): FileBuffer {
-  return new TextEncoder().encode(str).buffer as FileBuffer;
+  return new TextEncoder().encode(str).buffer;
 }
 
 export function fileBufferToString(fileBuffer: FileBuffer): string {