Angular4: Component.name doesn't work on production

Question

So I\'ve been facing this weird issue but I\'m not sure if it\'s a bug or it\'s me missing something here.
So I have a component called TestComponent and in

Answer 1

I just answered a related question here

To workaround mangling class names, you can create a function and check if it is equal to the class you want to test. In this case for TestComponent, you could use this:

getType(o: any): string {
      if (o === TestComponent)
          return 'TestComponent';
}

And calling it will print the Component name:

console.log(getType(TestComponent)); // will print 'TestComponent'