checks for node versions

[hpk42]

Had some fun trying to build again, got a bunch of those errors, puzzling to me:

> deltachat-desktop@1.28.2 build:backend /home/hpk/p/delta/desktop
> tsc --build src/main

../node/dist/context.d.ts:9:10 - error TS2305: Module '"stream"' has no exported member 'EventEmitter'.

9 import { EventEmitter } from 'stream';

While the README says v14.0.0 or newer is required, i use v14.8.12. Turns out that v14.8.13 avoids the above error.
It seems that v16 (stable node) is actually working. The whole thing took me like an hour to figure out, and it has happened before that i stumbled into node version issues.
Could the "npm run build" (or npm install) be made to check that a known-to-work version (from some list) is used?

[Simon-Laux]

you need to use #2687, this is because deltachat-node master is already on node 16

or you just use the slightly older deltachat node version on tag 1.77.0 for now.

Could the "npm run build" (or npm install) be made to check that a known-to-work version (from some list) is used?

The readme of dc node says it uses node 16 now and the changelog of dc node also states that. also while doing npm i you should have gotten a warning that deltachat-node needs nodejs version 16 now, maybe that warning is broken?