CONTRIBUTING.md is outdated

[bijela-gora]

🐛 Bug Report

One can't just simply follow CONTRIBUTING.md to generate content of the API folder.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

git checkout main
node scripts/generate --branch main

Actual behavior

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1050
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'standard'
Require stack:
- /home/user/Projects/elasticsearch-js/scripts/generate.js
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1047:15)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:893:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1113:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:103:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/user/Projects/elasticsearch-js/scripts/generate.js:27:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1226:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1280:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1089:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:930:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [ '/home/user/Projects/elasticsearch-js/scripts/generate.js' ]
}

Node.js v18.14.0

Expected behavior

The script should complete successfully. You know better then me what it should do :-)

Your Environment

• node version: 18.14.0
• os: Linux

[JoshMock]

Thanks @bijela-gora for bringing this up. I've opened #2016 to get this doc more up to date.

I believe we stopped depending on generate.js when this client's 8.0.0 release came out. It's definitely not going to work on any 8.x branch, but should still work on 7.x branches.