Node.js v12 will become EOL on 2022-04-30. As a result, Angular CLI v14 will no longer support Node.js v12.
BREAKING CHANGE:
Support for Node.js v12 has been removed as it will become EOL on 2022-04-30. Please use Node.js v14.15 or later.
Node.js v16 will be entering an LTS state prior to the release of Angular v13 which allows Node.js v16 to be marked as officially supported by the Angular CLI. The initial bootstrapping check now adds Node.js v16 to the output message in the event of an unsupported Node.js version.
NOTE: Prior to the final v13 release, the Node.js v16 minor should be updated to the actual LTS version once available.
To support the eventual migration of the CLI to ESM, the CLI commandline tool is now bootstrapped by dynamically importing the main initialization code. This is done to allow the main bin file (`ng`) to remain CommonJS so that older versions of Node.js can be checked and validated prior to the execution of the CLI. This separate bootstrap file is needed to allow the use of a dynamic import expression without crashing older versions of Node.js that do not support dynamic import expressions and would otherwise throw a syntax error. This bootstrap file is required from the main bin file only after the Node.js version is determined to be in the supported range. The use of the dynamic import expression allows CommonJS code to execute either CommonJS or ESM code.
