Dependency maintenance

[andersstorhaug]

Summary of changes:

• Upgrading packages, most notably rxjs to v7
• Removing unused packages: tsdx, @vue/reactivity, @types/webpack, cross-env
  • These were all dev dependencies, but, with tsdx specifically now that it's unmaintained, it was constraining package versions
• Replacing compromised faker package with @faker-js/faker fork

Some other notes:

• Seems that in later versions of TS, catch errors are typed as any (which makes some sense), so DynamicDataError reflects this
• The Rx toPromise operator has been replaced with lastValueFrom, see RxJS docs
• RxJS v7 no longer exports isScheduler, and so, this function has effectively been pulled into expireAfter.ts
• It seems that later versions of husky have a somewhat long-standing issue with Git GUIs, and I had to bypass commit hooks. I'm not sure if this was a problem before

[andersstorhaug]

As for the Mergify error, I'm not familiar at all but I did find this blog post. It seems the equivalent .mergify.yml could be:

queue_rules:
  - name: default
    method: squash
    conditions: []

pull_request_rules:
  - name: automatic merge when GitHub branch protection passes (others)
    conditions:
      - base=master
      - -author~=^dependabot(|-preview)\[bot\]$
      - 'label=:shipit: merge'
    actions:
        queue:
            name: default
  - name: auto merge github-actions
    conditions:
      - 'label=github-actions'
      - author~=^dependabot(|-preview)\[bot\]$
    actions:
      label:
        add:
          - ':shipit: merge'
  - name: automatic merge when GitHub branch protection passes
    conditions:
      - merged
      - 'label=:shipit: merge'
    actions:
      label:
        remove:
          - ':shipit: merge'
  - name: delete head branch after merge
    conditions:
      - merged
    actions:
      label:
        remove:
          - ':shipit: merge'
      delete_head_branch: {}

[andersstorhaug]

@david-driscoll Sorry to @ you, a lot of bot-initiated PRs here so wanted to make sure that you were aware. Any thoughts on reviving this project? I like what has been done here, and perhaps we can get the ball rolling again. Thought that bringing dependencies up to date, esp. with RxJS v7, would be a good start.

[andersstorhaug]

This casing produces a warning with newer versions of Jest.