Nativescript Playground and Preview app does not work anymore with the Preview 2.0 upgrade - nativescript

I noticed that the NS team has updated the Nativescript Preview app. The version history says that the last update was in 2020. With the recent update, the app wouldn't scan the QR code from play.nativescript.org and render it on the preview app. Instead, it is loading an example app on the preview app. I tried downloading the codebase and running it locally using ns preview but get an error (pasted below).
I am concerned since many of my sample apps are now in play.nativescript.org and I am not able to run them. Anybody else facing the same issue? If anyone has a resolution, please share. Your help is much appreciated. TIA.
Error when running ns preview

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