Webapp maintenance (2024-05)

[Enet4]

Summary

• dependency: react-router 4
  • Reverted, to be tried again at a later date.
• dev-dependency: css-loader 7
• dev-dependency: sass-loader 14
• dev-dependency: style-loader 4
• dev-dependency: webpack-dev-server 5
• npm update so that other dependencies are refreshed
• npm update on webcore
• Require a minimum of Node.js 18 to build the webapp

[tiberio-baptista]

Webapp continues to work as intended, with these new changes.

Looks good for me!

[Enet4]

We've been testing the webapp with these changes for a while. For the most part things seem to be in good order.
However, we currently depend on react-router in one of our web plugins so that it can navigate back to the search page. With the updates of react-router, hashHistory is no longer available. We may need to identify a migration path, making changes here if necessary.

[bastiao]

We've been testing the webapp with these changes for a while. For the most part things seem to be in good order. However, we currently depend on react-router in one of our web plugins so that it can navigate back to the search page. With the updates of react-router, hashHistory is no longer available. We may need to identify a migration path, making changes here if necessary.

This will be on-hold until this situation is solved.

[Enet4]

I have decided to revert the upgrade of react-router so that it can be worked on separately. When doing so, we must not forget to test for routing capabilities within a web UI plugin.

I'm thinking that at the same time we should try a better React integration again, one which does not force us to create multiple rendering contexts.