Uninstall npm package gulp-load-plugins

[MikeMcC399]

Current Implementation

• cwa-website/package.json

  Line 41 in 14346df

  "gulp-load-plugins": "^2.0.8",

installs the npm package gulp-load-plugins.

• The use of this package was removed through PR Refactor gulpfile from CommonJS to ECMAScript modules (ESM)  #3181.

• The npm package gulp-load-plugins use was removed and replaced by individual imports of gulp modules. This is because it produced the error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filename') in an ESM environment.

Suggested Enhancement

Uninstall the unused npm package gulp-load-plugins.

Expected Benefits

Removing unused external software components reduces exposure to security and compatibility issues.

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Internal Tracking ID: EXPOSUREAPP-14268

[dsarkar]

@MikeMcC399 Same here, thanks for the "house-keeping"!

[MikeMcC399]

• PR Uninstall unneeded gulp plugins (gulp-load-plugins and gulp-uglify) #3196 resolves this issue.

• Logically, uninstall of gulp-load-plugins belonged to PR Refactor gulpfile from CommonJS to ECMAScript modules (ESM)  #3181 however I deferred the uninstall due to a potential conflict with PR dependency Update to fix Nodev18 #3183 which was making major changes to npm packages, hence a separate issue and PR.