Path to Ruby 3.0, 3.1, EL9 and Ubuntu 22.04

[ekohl]

Something I completely forgot, but there’s also NodeJS to consider.

Today we build with NodeJS 12, but support 14. EL9 has version 16 by default and 18 in a module. Ubuntu 22.04 has version 12, but there we’ve used the nodesource repositories to update. I’d suggest to aim for a single version for our packaging environment, but have to rely on people more experienced with it to determine if it should be 16 or 18.

I think our current Webpack 3 (way outdated) is incompatible with NodeJS 16, so that also requires a serious effort. There’s already a plan written for that:

NodeJS 18 compatibility and webpack 5 upgrade

Hi! I started working on some needed updates to the Javascript infrastructure. I am planning on doing 3 updates in the following order: npm → React → Webpack, and will go into details on what updates I’m doing and why. General why Updating now will make it easier to maintain and update later on. Updating usually requires changing some of our code, updating it now when everything works fine means we can do it carefully and take our time. npm 8 The main change here is in foreman-js and every…