node@6 no longer available via Homebrew

[WaxCylinderRevival]

The HSG environment currently utilizes node@6, but node@6 is no longer available via Homebrew. The available versions are node@8 and node@10 [see https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/node].

As a result, users newly establishing an HSG environment on their local systems will receive a build fail for the "4. Deploy all repositories to localhost" step in the oXygenXML Editor tools menu.

Per @joewiz, if node@8 (or newer) is compatible with hsg-shell, could we migrate to the newer version?

[joewiz]

@plutonik-a Could you please check whether we can update to node@8 or newer in our apps that use node, namely, hsg-shell, hsa, and guides? The property files that currently hard code node@6 are:

• https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-shell/blob/master/build.properties
• https://gitlab.com/HistoryAtState/hsa/blob/dev/build.properties
• https://gitlab.com/HistoryAtState/guides/blob/dev/build.properties

Once you have made the necessary updates, I will ensure our setup instructions for installing node dependencies in https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-project/wiki/setup are up to date with the new dependencies.

[joewiz]

For additional context, see Homebrew/homebrew-core#39465, which states that node@6 was removed because it reached its end of life (EOL). node@8 will reach this same status in December 2019. See https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-schedule.

[plutonik-a]

Status on this issue:
I have just checked Guides App:
After updating to node v10.0.0 (which will be supported until 04/2021) the apps and its dependent packages worked fine.
Instead of installing each node version with homebrew I always use nvm, a node version manager, so it was easy for me to upgrade my node version.

However, I see a problematic dependency to bower packages, whose support will end soon, so looking for alternative npm packages (affects jquery, bootstrap3, bootstrap-less) is needed soon.
Now I'm going to continue checking HSG-Shell and HSA.

[plutonik-a]

Status:
Check the node 10 update in HSG-Shell (includes update to gulp 4 and general package updates). Instructions are written in the README file.
HistoryAtState/hsg-shell#340

[joewiz]

Closed by HistoryAtState/hsg-shell#340. See https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-project/wiki/setup#updating-from-an-old-setup for updating your HSG Development Environment to work with node@10 as well as the other dependencies that have changed in recent months.