Package ng2-smart-table is not compatible with Angular v14

[jake-brandt]

When installing as of this weekend, the following NPM error occurs during package resolution:

npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer @angular/common@"^10.0.0" from ng2-smart-table@1.7.2
npm error node_modules/ng2-smart-table
npm error   ng2-smart-table@"^1.6.0" from the root project

There are other more easily resolvable dependencies (tslint being one of them); but ng2-smart-table doesn't appear to support anything beyond Angular v10. Not quite sure how this previously worked with Angular v14 but I'm curious!

[jake-brandt]

For additional context; a colleague of mine reached out to see if we could solve this issue on his machine. I actually cloned a fresh copy of the repo myself and received the same errors as him. My thoughts are that at least a few of the subdependencies have been updated since last release of the project, and the version restrictions in package.json aren't strict enough. But even with that, using the original package-lock.json from source control yields the following (in other words, if I clone a fresh copy, here's what we originally got before narrowing down to the ng2-smart-table issue we couldn't get overlapping versions for between A14 and NG2ST v1.7):

npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE could not resolve
npm error
npm error While resolving: @angular/cdk@12.1.0
npm error Found: @angular/common@14.3.0
npm error node_modules/@angular/common
npm error   @angular/common@"^14.2.12" from the root project
npm error   peer @angular/common@"14.3.0" from @angular/forms@14.3.0
npm error   node_modules/@angular/forms
npm error     @angular/forms@"^14.2.12" from the root project
npm error     peer @angular/forms@"^14.0.0" from @nebular/auth@10.0.0
npm error     node_modules/@nebular/auth
npm error       @nebular/auth@"10.0.0" from the root project
npm error     2 more (@swimlane/ngx-charts, ng2-completer)
npm error   11 more (@angular/platform-browser, ...)
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer @angular/common@"^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0-0" from @angular/cdk@12.1.0
npm error node_modules/@angular/cdk
npm error   @angular/cdk@"12.1.0" from the root project
npm error   peer @angular/cdk@">=12.0.0" from @swimlane/ngx-charts@20.1.2
npm error   node_modules/@swimlane/ngx-charts
npm error     @swimlane/ngx-charts@"^20.1.2" from the root project
npm error
npm error Conflicting peer dependency: @angular/common@13.4.0
npm error node_modules/@angular/common
npm error   peer @angular/common@"^12.0.0 || ^13.0.0-0" from @angular/cdk@12.1.0
npm error   node_modules/@angular/cdk
npm error     @angular/cdk@"12.1.0" from the root project
npm error     peer @angular/cdk@">=12.0.0" from @swimlane/ngx-charts@20.1.2
npm error     node_modules/@swimlane/ngx-charts
npm error       @swimlane/ngx-charts@"^20.1.2" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm error this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm error to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.