Epic: Update Electron & Node

[rak-phillip]

Our version of Electron (20.3.8) is out of support ¹ and Node v16 reaches EOL on ². At the time of writing, Electron v24 is stable and supports Node v18.14. Updating both Node and Electron will require additional maintenance work with removing Nuxt as a dependency from Rancher Desktop; this task has been performed in Rancher Dashboard, so we should have a reference for this work.

Updating Electron and Node is necessary to ensure security and stability for Rancher Desktop, as well as to take advantage of new features and improvements in the latest versions. One enhancement that we will benefit from is in #4394.

✔️ Tasks

• Migrate to yarn package manager #3723
• Remove Nuxt from Rancher Desktop #5000
  • build(deps-dev): bump ts-loader from 8.4.0 to 9.2.1 #5310
  • Bump ts-loader from 8.4.0 to 9.4.4 #5568
  • Update eslint to latest and (8.39.0) and fix vue linting errors #5298
• Update Electron #5619
  • see Bump electron from 18.3.13 to 22.0.0 #3683
• RDX: Replace BrowserView.webContents.destroy() with BrowserView.webContents.close() #4394 (would be unblocked post Electron update)
• Upgrade nodejs to v18.16 #5623
  • build(deps-dev): bump octokit from 2.1.0 to 3.1.0 #5305
  • build(deps-dev): bump @octokit/rest from 19.0.5 to 20.0.1 #5336
• Dev Scripts: Leftover Node.js Processes After Removing Nuxt #5630
• Update Router Location #5634
• Rewrite win-ca.ts in Go for Electron Sandboxing Compatibility #5637
• registerHttpProtocol & registerFileProtocol are deprecated by Electron #5659

🐛 Known Issues

• Error with Electron and ffi-napi node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi#238

Footnotes

1. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/electron-timelines#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20September%202021%20%28Electron%2015%29%2C%20the%20Electron,will%20continue%20until%20the%20release%20of%20Electron%2019. ↩

2. https://github.com/nodejs/release#release-schedule ↩

[adamkpickering]

When this epic is closed, please take #5305 out of draft and review it. It is waiting on node 18+.