Angular Divorce: Utilities.equals implementation

[liamlaverty]

@harry-gordon and I have made some changes for the Angular Divorce issue #7718

Prerequisites

• ✅ I have added steps to test this contribution in the description below (added unit tests)

Description

Replaced facade with implementation for

• Utilities.equals

Added the functions to support Utilities.equals

• Utilities.isDate
• Utilities.isRegexp
• Utilities.simpleCompare

Added unit tests for

• Utilities.equals
• Utilities.isDate
• Utilities.isRegExp (although not lots)

[nathanwoulfe]

Unit tests! New utilities! You're a legend @liamlavert, great work.

[emmaburstow]

Heyyyy @liamlaverty

Thanks for this work. Wonderful to see this divorce progressing. We'll check it out and let you know if we've any questions.

Emma

[nul800sebastiaan]

Hey there @liamlaverty and many apologies for the late reply.

First off: there was a PR open for this already: #7860

Second: While we love the idea of decoupling from AngularJS we don't want to then maintain our own custom library that we'd need to maintain and find and fix bugs in etc. So we won't be able to detach this aggressively from AngularJS unfortunately. Therefore we'll close this PR and please note that we won't consider future PRs that introduce large new methods in the Utilities file.