feat: upgrade to Angular v22

[40oleg]

Completed the Nebular migration to Angular 22:

• Updated Angular, CLI, CDK, ng-packagr, and TypeScript 6.
• Adapted Nebular packages, CDK integrations, and schematics.
• Fixed playground and documentation builds.
• Replaced Protractor with Playwright: 111 E2E tests.
• Added npm package and consumer smoke validation.
• Updated ESLint, CI, and the release pipeline.
• Validation passes: 824/824 theme unit tests and 111/111 E2E tests.
• The remaining external limitation is AngularFire’s Angular 22 peer dependency support.

[40oleg]

these files will be deleted after review and making other fixes in this pr

[40oleg]

@denStrigo @elupanov can you check this out, please. I would like to upgrade this version because my project requires Nebular and I want this package be compatible with latest Angular.

[lazovskih]

Hi @40oleg
Great work! Thank you! Unfortunately I am not the approuver.
Could you please share steps to run the app with all demo on a Windoes 11 PC.
Thank you!
Regards,
Vitaly

[40oleg]

Hi @40oleg Great work! Thank you! Unfortunately I am not the approuver. Could you please share steps to run the app with all demo on a Windoes 11 PC. Thank you! Regards, Vitaly

Run the Angular 22 Nebular demo on Windows 11

Open PowerShell as Administrator and install Git and NVM for Windows:

winget install --id Git.Git --exact
winget install --id CoreyButler.NVMforWindows --exact

Close PowerShell and open it again. Install the required Node.js version:

nvm install 22.22.3
nvm use 22.22.3
node --version

node --version should print v22.22.3.

Clone the PR branch and start the component playground:

git clone --branch feat/angular-22 https://github.com/40oleg/nebular.git
cd nebular
npm ci
npm start

Open http://localhost:4200/. The first page is a component index. A styled example is available at http://localhost:4200/#/button/button-showcase.component.

To run the documentation site, open another PowerShell window in the nebular directory:

npm run docs:serve

Open http://localhost:4100/. Press Ctrl+C to stop either server.

Input something in search field to components` list become visible

[lazovskih]

Hi @40oleg .
Thank you for the instructions.
I used to start the demo site with following comand:
npm start ngx-admin-demo

When I do it with thе current changes I see those errors in the terminal:
Error: Invalid values:
Argument: project, Given: "ngx-admin-demo", Choices: "auth", "date-fns", "docs", "eva-icons", "firebase-auth", "moment", "playground", "security", "theme"

Could you please check what is wrong with the code?

[lekhmanrus]

should we drop all the committed AI planning docs from the PR?

[lekhmanrus]

keeps dead constructor params (platform, ngZone, document) now unused since super() takes none. Drop them (same for the Inject/NgZone/NbPlatform/NB_DOCUMENT imports) to match the scroll-dispatcher cleanup?

[lekhmanrus]

curious, why this index loses half its links? either the generator is broken on ng22 (skips components) or a partial tree was committed? should we try regenerate from a clean tree?