[Security/Build] Node/NPM Dependencies are Out-of-Date & Build Fails w/o Python2

[danieldjewell]

As of today, running a simple npm audit against the current packages.json file reveals 149 vulnerabilities (5 low, 70 moderate, 44 high, 30 critical) ...

Additionally, I receive a build error from node-gyp that it cannot locate python2 (which isn't available, installed, nor supported any longer) ... The dependency tree is something like this (in reverse): [email protected] > [email protected] > @angular/[email protected]... The old version of Angular is probably causing this issue.

For reference, the current version of @angular/cli is 15.2.1 (released 2023-03-01). (Actually, that goes for all of angular... the current version used here is 4.3.6.)

A quick run of npm outdated reveals a significant delta...