package.json engines lists Node.js 14 in end-of-life status

[MikeMcC399]

Node.js 14 is still listed in package.json although it entered end-of-life on April 30, 2023.

• package.json

currently lists

  "engines": {
    "node": "^14.0.0 || ^16.0.0 || >=18.0.0"
  }

as supported Node.js versions. This is no longer in line with the Node.js release schedule:

• Node.js 14 passed into end-of-life status on Apr 30, 2023
• Node.js 19 passed into end-of-life status on Jun 1, 2023
• Node.js 20 was released on Apr 18, 2023

(in addition

• Node.js 16 is planned to transition into end-of-life status on Sep 11, 2023)

Currently:

• package-lock.json uses "lockfileVersion": 2 which produces a warning when npm install is used with Node.js 14. If npm ci is used, no warning is issued regarding the lockfileVersion.

• .node-version already specifies Node.js 18 as the compatible version for this repository.

Suggestion

To reflect the official Node.js release schedule update the engines section to:

  "engines": {
    "node": "^16.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || >=20.0.0"
  }

Yarn strictly enforces engine constraints. npm produces warnings by default if engine constraints are not met.

Changes to the engines definition need to be declared as a BREAKING CHANGE meaning that a new major version number would be created at release time.

[MikeMcC399]

The main Cypress repo cypress-io/cypress uses Yarn and in the default develop branch it specifies:

  "engines": {
    "node": ">=16.16.0",
    "yarn": ">=1.17.3"
  },

so updating this repo should not cause a problem for building Cypress.

cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/cli/package.json however specifies:

  "engines": {
    "node": "^14.0.0 || ^16.0.0 || >=18.0.0"
  },

which affects the released npm package cypress so I suggest delaying changes in the cypress-io/cypress-example-kitchensink until the engines definition of Cypress has been updated to a minimum Node.js 16 version.

[MikeMcC399]

@nagash77

Are there any plans to update engines for the Cypress 13.x release to drop Node.js 14 and explicitly add Node.js 20 (implicitly dropping Node.js 19)?

I can't see any change so far to engines in
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/release/13.0.0/cli/package.json

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/fb68512bfaa7d64a7308e16f5df1e88e49119ec3/cli/package.json#L125-L127 shows

  "engines": {
    "node": "^14.0.0 || ^16.0.0 || >=18.0.0"
  },

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