Remove support for older versions of Angular in relation to Component Testing

[AtofStryker]

What would you like?

With the next major version of Cypress, I would like to remove support for Angular CT versions 13 through 16

Why is this needed?

Angular at time of writing is on version 18. Cypress makes an effort to support the latest two versions of any component framework. As technology advances while we update Cypress, it will become harder and harder to support older versions of component frameworks. It is also a lot of overhead for us to maintaining system tests for every version of a given framework

Other

We might consider deprecating support first, but more conversation is needed

[MikeMcC399]

@AtofStryker

I suggest to align with https://angular.dev/reference/releases and remove support for Angular 13-15, since Angular itself no longer considers these versions as supported.

If the next major version of Cypress is released after 2024-11-08, then Angular 16 would also be a candidate for removal from Cypress support for the same reasons.

[MikeMcC399]

The npm package @cypress/schematic is related and currently states it requires Angular 14+.

If support for older Angular versions is removed, then this also impacts @cypress/schematic , which should probably also be updated similarly.