@angular-builders/custom-webpack to support Angular 16

[CarlosTorrecillas]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
@angular-builders/custom-webpack compatible with Angular 16

Describe the solution you'd like
@angular-builders/custom-webpack to be able to be installed on an Angular 16 project

Describe alternatives you've considered
I haven't found any yet

Additional context
Running the migration of one of my projects from Angular 15 to Angular 16 and leaving @angular-builders/custom-webpack on the latest version, produces the following error:

This version of CLI is only compatible with Angular versions ^15.0.0, but Angular version 16.0.0 was found instead. which stops the process during my build

[phihochzwei]

+1

For us this is currently a showstopper on updating to NG16, which is quite sad since the Hydration Feature is a game changer

[CarlosTorrecillas]

Me too @phihochzwei , hopefully a new version of the package gets released soon. Fingers crossed!!

[just-jeb]

Hopefully next week guys, a bit of patience 🙂.

[phihochzwei]

Hopefully next week guys, a bit of patience 🙂.

Well, I guess, ever Angular developer is currently like

[simeyla]

Can anyone comment on the long term viability / prospects for @angular-builders/custom-webpack ?
Is it likely to be obsolete / incompatible with any upcoming Angular integrations of vite or esbuild?

Personally I use it for:

• retry plugin (webpack-retry-chunk-load-plugin)
• reduce moment js size (moment-locales-webpack-plugin)
• custom plugin to write out the webpack manifest (to preload JS bundles)

I'm asking more from a technical standpoint rather than a willingness-to-maintain standpoint.

[polhek]

@simeyla in our application we use it as we are migrating from angularJS to angular.

[just-jeb]

@simeyla as long as Angular supports Webpack this builder will be maintained and probably relevant.
Native Angular esbuild builder doesn't support extension interface at the moment so there is nothing we (or as a matter of fact anyone else) can do about it. If they'll open it for extensions we can create a new builder (like custom-esbuild) but it will certainly not be implemented as part of custom-webpack builder.
Hope it answers your question. Related issue: #1288

[emmanuel-musau]

I am waiting for angular-builders/custom-webpack to support angular 16 eagerly, I have an angular project that is stuck because I need do enable some experiments.
Any update on the progress would be much appreciated.

[just-jeb]

@Emmanuel-FSE This is the PR to track: #1357
I'm waiting on final approval from @arturovt, who's been working on this PR, in order to merge it.

[md13381]

@Emmanuel-FSE This is the PR to track: #1357 I'm waiting on final approval from @arturovt, who's been working on this PR, in order to merge it.

Is he not waiting on you to review it for merge? Its been requested for review for the last couple of days

[just-jeb]

@md13381 yeah haha. We've been talking internally, don't worry 😁 It's almost done.

[just-jeb]

You're welcome to try the new version under the @next tag. We'll give it a few days in beta and then graduate to stable.

[just-jeb]

Stable version is out.