Check old frontend deps

[antgamdia]

While upgrading our frontend deps I've noticed there are several not being upgraded in quite a long time.
Perhaps they are deprecated or have been replaced by new ones, so they stopped publishing under this npm module nada.

In a preliminary selection of those whose latest release date is 1y ahead, I've extracted:

More than a year

• fstream 🔴
  • Action: delete dep
  • Explanation: no activity for 2 years, apparently unused in our code.
  • Tracked at: Remove fstream UI dependency #3520
• jsonwebtoken 🟢
  • Action: continue using it.
  • Explanation: not recently updated, but it is still useful for validating our jwt tokens
• normalize.css 🟡
  • Action: replace by modern-normalize, the one used in our UI reference framework, Clarity (modern-normalize)
  • Explanation: modernize wasn't being updated, clarity people replace it here: vmware-archive/clarity@feafcea
  • Tracked at: Replace normalize with modern-normalize UI dependency #3524
• prop-types 🟢
  • Action: continue using it.
  • Explanation: it is for checking the type of the React props and similar objects. Not frequently updated, but still useful.
• raf 🔴
  • Action: delete dep
  • Explanation: it was introduced during the initial version of our enzyme tests (7e02104). I guess now Enzyme itself has support for requestAnimationFrame and this dep is no longer required.
  • Tracked at: Remove raf UI dependency #3523
• redux-thunk 🟢
  • Action: continue using it.
  • Explanation: no activity for 3 years, but it is part of redux and it is a way to define action creators (like redux saga or redux loop, I think). We are actively using it, so let's keep it.
• seamless-immutable 🔴
  • Action: delete dep
  • Explanation: no activity for 3 years, apparently unused, but not sure. It was added by Michael at 3ebb2e5
  • Tracked at: Remove immutable and seamless-immutable UI dependencies #3522

Under a year

• react-diff-viewer 🟡
  • Action: continue using it, but stay vigilant since it seems to be unmaintained.
  • Explanation: no new release has been published so far, some users have reported some failures with the latest React versions. However, it is a "core" dep, as it provides the diff between two text files. Idea: what if we migrate from Ace two Monaco (the vscode text editor), which also have diff views.
• react-helmet 🟢
  • Action: continue using it
  • Explanation: no new release has been published so far, but it is a rather simple dependency (adding headers) and we do use it for hot-reloading the dark mode.
• react-jsonschema-form: 🔴
  • Action: delete dep
  • Explanation: superseded by @rjsf/core, but it is unused in our code (it was introduced because of the svc catalogs 349ba19)
  • Tracked at: Remove react-jsonschema-form UI dependency #3521
• typesafe-actions 🟢
  • Action: continue using it.
  • Explanation: no new release has been published so far, but it is a utility (with no deps) for simplifying the process of creating a redux action. In fact, it was updated and we are still using the old and deprecated syntax.

Perhaps some of them are so simple that they don't require any frequent upgrade, but I think it worths having a look at each of them.

[antgamdia]

Closing as all the PRs have been merged.