Add Angular 19 Support

[EphraimHaber]

this pr contains the necessary minimal changes to support angular 19.

[EphraimHaber]

closes #166

[EphraimHaber]

Note: I did not modify the version of the package. This should be done by a core maintainer before the next release to NPM.

[uap-universe]

Hi @EphraimHaber
thank you for the PR.

Have you already performed the regression tests for integrating the updated smart table package in an Angular 16, 17, 18 project?

[EphraimHaber]

Hi @uap-universe
Can you explain please? I've built the .tgz and tested it on a new project. Working nicely as expected.

[uap-universe]

Hi @EphraimHaber
any change to the code that is necessary to make it compatible with Angular 19 must be also tested with at least all still supported Angular versions, as well.
The tests would be the following:

• Test with Angular 16 - if it works, we keep it in the list, if it does not, we can remove it, because it is end of life
• Test with Angular 17 / Angular 18 - must work, because they have not reached end of life

If tests with Angular 17 or 18 fail due to the changes to the code, we must not release the changes as a minor release. The only option would be to introduce a new major release and discard support for older Angular versions.

That's more or less the process for every new Angular version :)

Now back to my questions: just in case you already did those tests, I don't necessarily need to repeat them. Otherwise, I would need to do them, when I find time.

[EphraimHaber]

Ah ok. Clever. I have not run them. but I'm not sure it's possible to do that given the changes the angular team has made to the @component decorator. I will try and do it by the end of the day.

@uap-universe

[uap-universe]

The standalone flag was already present in all still supported Angular versions. So this is good to go to be merged into the next release.