updating node (#1007)

* updating code and dependencies to work with node 18

* updating documentation and other items from node 16 to 18

Author: paulr34

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.x]
+        node-version: [18.x]
         os: [ubuntu-22.04]
 
     steps:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.x]
+        node-version: [18.x]
         os: [ubuntu-22.04]
 
     steps:
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.x]
+        node-version: [18.x]
         os: [ubuntu-22.04]
 
     steps:
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.x]
+        node-version: [18.x]
         os: [ubuntu-22.04]
 
     steps:
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Node.js, NPM and Yarn
         uses: actions/[email protected]
         with:
-          node-version: 16.x
+          node-version: 18.x
           cache: 'npm'
 
       - name: Prepare Linux build environment
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [16.x]
+        node-version: [18.x]
 
     # CHIP container required because clang-format version needs to match
     container:

README.md

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ ZAP is a generic templating engine. Examples are provided for how to generate ar
 
 ## Quick setup
 
+### Node Version
+
+- Node LTS: 18.16.0
+
 ### Prebuilt binaries
 
 On the [release page](https://github.com/project-chip/zap/releases), there are two flavors of prebuilt binaries.

docs/development-instructions.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This section lists instructions for various things you might need to do in this repo.
 
-This is a node.js application, so you need node environment installed. The best way is to simply download latest install of [node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) and you will get node and npm. If you have an older version of node installed on your workstation, it may give you trouble, particularly if it's very old. So make sure you have latest node v16.x version, with the npm that comes with it available. Run `node --version` to check what version is picked up. v14.x mostly works as well, there is some success with v18.x, but at this point v16.x is recommended.
+This is a node.js application, so you need node environment installed. The best way is to simply download latest install of [node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) and you will get node and npm. If you have an older version of node installed on your workstation, it may give you trouble, particularly if it's very old. So make sure you have latest node v16.x version, with the npm that comes with it available. Run `node --version` to check what version is picked up. v18.x is recommended.
 
 Once you have a desired version of node, you can run: