bring back the support for Node.js v16

[mcollina]

Given our goal for fast-uri to be the default of ajv, I think we should bring back support for Node.js v16. This would mean:

• switch to use tape instead of tap
• use a custom action

[mcollina]

@gurgunday @jsumners wdyt?

[gurgunday]

We already test for node 16? Did you mean node 14?

fast-uri/.github/workflows/ci.yml

Line 23 in 986abce

node-versions: '["16", "18", "20"]'

[gurgunday]

Do we want a custom workflow to test it in the browser? I don’t understand why tape is needed

[mcollina]

latest tap does not support node v16 and v18.

[Uzlopak]

I think tape is acceptable in this case, because we could then also implement #21 easily, as it would be a copy paste solution from readable-stream repo.

[jsumners]

Won't AJV need to drop Node 16 in a few short (😭) months anyway?

[jasoniangreen]

I just released AJV 8.17.1 with fast-uri. I hadn't seen this, but you're right, we'd be looking at dropping it soon. Hopefully this doesn't cause too many problems. I mean, 16 is about 6 months over the maintenance window.

Also it must work because our test suite runs 16 with fast-uri.

[gurgunday]

We now use tape and the CI successfully tests fast-uri on node 16

For browser support, it should be working already, and the custom CI to run automated browser tests can be tracked at #21