Consume the compatibility matrix to check a project's dependencies

[chihab]

It would be handy if we can somehow consume this referential data from the outside.

There are many interesting tools we can build on top of this compatibility matrix.

For example a script that checks what libraries need to be updated when upgrading a project to some Angular version (Could be part of this repo actually)

Project example

"@angular/core": "^13.0.0"
"ngx-toast": "^14.0.0",
"ngx-old-legacy": "^13.0.0"

npx ngx-libs migrate 16 --check (check depedencies' versions)

*  You need to upgrade ngx-toast to version 17.0.0
*  ngx-old-legacy is not compatible with Angular 16

npx ngx-libs migrate 15 --apply (apply the updates (if compatible))

npx ngx-libs migrate --supported (search for common supported Angular version)

* You can peacefully migrate to Angular 15
* The latest Angular 16 version is not yet supported by some packages:
  - ngx-old-legacy

[eneajaho]

Yeah that is a good idea, there's another issue opened for this kind of feature: https://github.com/eneajaho/ngx-libs/issues/27

[chihab]

It would be great to have the matrix accessible from the outside, as an endpoint or a node lib..., so external tooling could also consume it.

[eneajaho]

For that we probably would need a server so what do you recommend?

[nartc]

@eneajaho add SSR then we can use the express server. Should have gone with Analog 😝

[eneajaho]

@nartc I can always merge a PR to convert the site to Analog with SSR and maybe why not cloudlfare workers LOL.

[chihab]

maybe just a json file in the repo is enough no? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eneajaho/ngx-libs/master/package.json

the external script would just have to fetch the matrix from the repo: const ngxLibs = await (await fetch('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eneajaho/ngx-libs/master/maxtrix.json')).json()