Upgrade Node Version 12 to Latest Node Version 19

[akhilkumar438]

Hi - we're currently actively using the merge bot and the current base image node 12 its not supported anymore and also had some vulnerabilities so we want to upgrade to latest node version 19 before we that we want to make sure latest node version is supported or not.

@jusx @ketan @rtlechow @hemeroc @makuk66

[abid-mujtaba]

I have had success with Node 18 with one caveat. Node 15, I believe, made unhandled Promise rejections an error instead of a warning and these crash the application. To fix this I added:

process.on('unhandledRejection', (reason, promise) => {
  console.log('WARNING: Ignoring unhandled promise rejection at:', promise, 'reason:', reason);
});

to the start of the index.js file.

[nightskyguy]

Version 2.17.6 references node 16; however when I attempt to start the container I get this message: Node.js version 18 is required. You have v16.20.2

When I change the dockerFile reference to Node 18, a test fails:

node[8]: ../src/node_platform.cc:68:std::unique_ptr<long unsigned int> node::WorkerThreadsTaskRunner::DelayedTaskScheduler::Start(): Assertion `(0) == (uv_thread_create(t.get(), start_thread, this))' failed.

However when I updated it to Node 19, it seems to work. But see #739 which says Node 20 will not work.