drop Node v16

[chimurai]

Describe the feature you'd love to see

• drop node 16

  http-proxy-middleware/package.json

  Line 101 in d3851ed

  "node": "^14.15.0 || ^16.10.0 || >=18.0.0"

• remove legacy req.connection

  http-proxy-middleware/src/http-proxy-middleware.ts

  Line 66 in fd0f568

  const server: https.Server = ((req.socket ?? req.connection) as any)?.server;

• use node: imports (https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#node-imports)
• update tsconfig.ts (https://node.green/#ES2022)

  http-proxy-middleware/tsconfig.json

  Line 8 in 7141588

  "target": "es2021",

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[ravinatesan]

Please use http-proxy-node16(https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-proxy-node16) as http-proxy is using deprecated features of nodejs.

[chimurai]

hi @ravinatesan

Handling the util._extend deprecation warnings is out of scope of this issue.

For now I would refer to this documentation to handle it:
https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/blob/master/NODE_DEPRECATIONS.md

Alternatively you can override http-proxy with the fork you mentioned.

// package.json (npm)
{
  "overrides": {
    "http-proxy": "npm:http-proxy-node16@^1.0.6"
  }
}