AngularFire compatibility not compatible with angular-cli esbuild?

[LanderBeeuwsaert]

Angular:
16.0.0

Firebase:
firebase-js-sdk 9.21.0

AngularFire:
7.4.0

Other (e.g. Ionic/Cordova, Node, browser, operating system):

How to reproduce these conditions

when upgrading to angular 16 and using the new esbuild

I get this error:

we are still using the firebase compatibility library in some places in the project, it seems to be related to that.
Is angularFire compatible with esbuild?

[google-oss-bot]

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[Albejr]

The latest AngularFire package is not yet compatible with the new version 16.

[davideast]

Follow along at #3402