refactor: npm rpc: use old school require instead of the experimental json import

[Simon-Laux]

to get rid of warning. Should also make it possible to use nodejs versions older than 20.11.

Disclaimer: needs to be tested, I haven't tested it yet.

[link2xt]

Can remove the note "The minimum nodejs version for this package is 20.11" from the readme as well.

[Simon-Laux]

Can remove the note "The minimum nodejs version for this package is 20.11" from the readme as well.

There should still be a minimum version. maybe 16 or 18 then. but 20 is current LTS version anyway.

[link2xt]

There should still be a minimum version. maybe 16 or 18 then. but 20 is current LTS version anyway.

@hpk42 has node 16 and other than this problem it worked (after removing this line directly in node_modules). So it can be stated that minimum supported is 16.

We don't test this package with CI so it is not really ensured, would be nice to use this in deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/ tests instead of compiling the binary with a direct call to cargo and using it from target here:
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/b6dceb42716ce1557a87c491469b578cb75c91dc/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/test_base.ts#L17
But otherwise I think it's fine to state that we at least intend to support node 16.

[Simon-Laux]

@hpk42 has node 16

he should update, also electron uses a newer version internally.

[link2xt]

@hpk42 has node 16

he should update, also electron uses a newer version internally.

The bot (https://github.com/link2xt/xdcterm) does not need electron and otherwise works fine with node 16.