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arturovt c6e4a36be1 fix(core): throw a descriptive error instead of crashing when a hydration node is missing
locateOrCreateElementNodeImpl looks up the DOM node for an element
during hydration and immediately checks its nodeType. If the
client-rendered DOM has fewer nodes than the server-rendered HTML,
the lookup returns null, and in production that null flows straight
into the nodeType check and crashes with a raw, uncoded
"Cannot read properties of null (reading 'nodeType')" TypeError.

The dev-mode check that would normally catch this (validateMatchingNode)
already handles a missing node, but it's compiled out of production
builds, so the crash only shows up outside of dev mode.

Add a null check ahead of the nodeType check that throws a coded
RuntimeError using the existing HYDRATION_MISSING_NODE (NG0502) code,
with a descriptive message in dev mode and a cheap fallback in
production. Also add a regression test that removes a server-rendered
element before hydration runs and asserts a coded RuntimeError is
thrown instead of a raw TypeError.
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