Move away from `@ng-dynamic-forms`

[ybnd]

Issue / context

During the Angular 15 upgrade, @Atmire-Kristof noticed conflicts between the newer versions of the following libraries:

• ng-bootstrap
  • v14 supports Angular 15 properly
• @ng-dynamic-forms
  • v16+ claims to support Angular 15, but @ng-dynamic-forms/ui-ng-bootstrap still requires ng-bootstrap v11 as a peer dependency, which itself doesn't support Angular 15
  • After "forcing" the upgrade, builds fail because of inconsistencies between the ng-bootstrap versions, so this is not a viable workaround

Rather than do a half-upgrade we opted to leave both of these libraries as-is for now. This leads to peer dependency mismatch warnings, but everything remains functional.

Solution

It looks like development of @ng-dynamic-forms has slowed down as of late, and this version mismatch is a bit of a red flag. Therefore, we should consider moving away from this library and use the default Angular forms instead for more stability.

This would involve a significant refactor of DSpace Angular submission.

References

Add references/links to any related issues or PRs. These may include:

• Related to [Submission Refactor] Refactor Entity Relationships to be modified via WorkspaceItem #858

• Left out of Angular 15 upgrade #2204