Upgrade NodeJs to ~> 18.10.x

[adbatista]

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[HeitorMC]

Hey, I've tried to update the nodeJS version to 18.10.0. However, I discovered that Node.JS 17 or above uses OpenSSL3, which is incompatible with the webpack version 4. The latest version of gem webpacker uses webpack 4.x.x+

This is the error that I got when I tried to app rails webpacker:compile

node:internal/crypto/hash:71 this[_Handle] = new Hash(algorithm, xofLen); ^ Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported

[HeitorMC]

Hey, I would like to be assign for this issue 🤝

[HeitorMC]

Hey, I have some news: The gem webpacker has been retired, and for rails 7 apps, there are three great default answers to JavaScript in 2021+, according to the README of webpacker.

So, this gem won't receive new updates to include newer versions of JS and still will use webpack 4.x.x+. Also, there is a kind of "fork" of webpacker, called Shakapacker but uses Webpack v5+. Both webpacker 4 and v5+ are incompatible with nodeJS > 17 because of the openSSL3.

Right now, I can picture two cases for this issue:

• Since we do have this issue Remove React in favor of HotWired #263, one approach would be to use importmap + hotwire instead of webpacker because this approach removes the node dependency in the project. However, I don't know viable is this choice.

• Stick with webpacker gem and use the node flag --openssl-legacy-provider. This becomes a valid approach because nodeJS will be used only in build time, so it doesn't seem a problem and solves the issue.

WDYT?

[adbatista]

I don't see a problem using node with openssl3, but since we will use hotwired let's go with this approach, thanks for investigating it

[abarbosa-godaddy]

should we add a hold label to this issue? @adbatista

[adbatista]

why?