I periodically run into the problem, having to spin up old Angular projects with deprecated dependencies of Angular.
Because I unsually run the latest Node.js version (at least lates LTS version) I often had the problem, that I wasn't able to get the old projects running. I solved this by using a node version manager, but still I often have the problem that I'm not sure what is the best Node.js version to use for Angular Version X.
Sadly the official release notes handle this topic shabbily and are not a true help, especially if you like to know as of which Angular Version you can't use a specific Node.js version anymore...
Is there a complete compatibility list to check which Angular version is compatible with which Node.js version?
I acknowledge that this does not actually answer your question. But it does provide some relevant information for current version (which is what brought me here).
Here is the official word from Angular on current version:
https://angular.io/guide/setup-local
"Angular requires a current, active LTS, or maintenance LTS version of Node.js."
In the notes you will see a link to a package.json file that contains an "engines" section. For Angular 11 it says:
"engines": {
"node": ">= 10.13.0",
"npm": ">= 6.11.0",
"yarn": ">= 1.13.0"
},
It might be possible to look at the released version of package.json in GitHub and determine the engines.node setting?