build: upgrade to node16

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -6,34 +6,37 @@ on:
       - master
   pull_request:
     branches:
-      - '**'
+      - "**"
 
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
-    - name: Checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
-    - name: Setup Nodejs
-      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
-      with:
-        node-version: 12
+      - name: Setup Nodejs Env
+        run: echo "NODE_VER=`cat .nvmrc`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: npm ci
+      - name: Setup Nodejs
+        uses: dcodeIO/setup-node-nvm@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: "${{ env.NODE_VER }}"
 
-    - name: Lint
-      run: npm run lint
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
 
-    - name: Test
-      run: npm run test
+      - name: Lint
+        run: npm run lint
 
-    - name: Build
-      run: npm run build
+      - name: Test
+        run: npm run test
 
-    - name: Docs
-      run: npm run docs
+      - name: Build
+        run: npm run build
 
-    - name: Run Coverage
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
+      - name: Docs
+        run: npm run docs
+
+      - name: Run Coverage
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      - name: Setup Node.js Env
+        run: echo "NODE_VER=`cat .nvmrc`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Setup Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        uses: dcodeIO/setup-node-nvm@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 12
+          node-version: "${{ env.NODE_VER }}"
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci

.nvmrc

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+v16
+

README.md

@@ -25,6 +25,27 @@ In addition, frontend-platform provides an extensible application initialization
 
 ## Getting started
 
+### One-time setup if you have not ugpraded node/npm
+IMPORTANT: There is now a new node/npm version being used by frontend-platform as of
+https://github.com/edx/frontend-platform/pull/259
+
+#### Install nvm
+This is highly recommended in order to be able to leverage different node/npm versions.
+For a period of time, different repositories may be using different versions of node/npm.
+
+Alternatively, please install node16 and npm8 for use with this repository.
+
+#### Switch to node/npm version for this repo
+```nvm use```
+if you don't have the right node/npm versions, nvm will instruct you to install those
+
+#### Clean out old node modules and reinstall
+This step is needed because node now uses a different package lock format, and it's important to reinstall
+dependencies based on this new package file. Delete node_modules, and issue a `npm ci`
+
+
+### Standard getting started steps
+
 1. `npm install`
 2. `npm start`
 3. Open http://localhost:8080 to view the example app.
@@ -116,4 +137,3 @@ NOTE: As of this writing, i18n is _not_ configurable.  The `initialize()` functi
 When making changes to frontend-platform, be sure to manually run the included example app located in `./example`. The example app includes 2 routes to test for both unauthenticated and authenticated users. To start the example app, run `npm start` from the root directory.
 
 If you want to test changes to frontend-platform against a micro-frontend locally, follow the directions here: https://github.com/edx/frontend-build#local-module-configuration-for-webpack
-