Updating MEME 2018 for New Grant Work

[dsriseah]

New fork of original MEME (2018) created. New Wiki, Issues, Projects, and Pull Requests for changes moving forward go in this repo. However, we can refer to stuff in the old WIKI as needed.

Running list of Issues

• package updates for 2024 standards
• merge old branches and purge them
• material ui removal, but with what

[dsriseah]

Raw nodes on package updates from @Sakelun posted to Slack on May 21. This is the basis for the work in PR #9 Core Platform Update for Node v18

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Packages Updated (Back-end)

• adm-zip: Minor update (v0.4.14 to v0.5.10)
  Not updated

• ajv: Major update (v6.10.2 to v8.12.0)
  Not updated

• cookie-parser: Patch update (v1.4.4 to v1.4.6)
  Rationale: Dependency updates
  Changelog: https://github.com/expressjs/cookie-parser/blob/master/HISTORY.md

• debounce: Major update (v1.2.0 to v2.0.0)
  Not updated

  Adds requirement: Node v18
  Updates some devDependencies for testing
  (Does not need to be updated)

• ejs: Major update (v2.7.1 to v3.1.9)
  Rationale: npm audit vulnerability (critical) / ejs template injection vulnerability GHSA-phwq-j96m-2c2q

  Notes: changelogs apparently stop being a thing after 2.7.4 ? Was able to dig up a CHANGELOG file that provided notes for v3.0.1 which has since been removed

  v3.0.1
  Removed require.extensions (@mde)
  Removed legacy preprocessor include (@mde)
  Removed support for EOL Nodes 4 and 6 (@mde)

• express: Minor update (v4.17.1 to v4.18.2)
  Rationale: Required for Node v18 support
  Changelog: https://expressjs.com/en/changelog/4x.html

  Relevant changes

  v4.17.2
  - Bug fixes
  - Supports Node 14.x
  v4.167.3
  - Bug fixes
  v4.18.0
  - Supports Node 18.x
  - N/A (method not used): Cookie expirations don't accept invalid dates
  - N/A (method not used): Cookie supports null/undefined as maxAge
  - N/A (status code not used): Proper support for HTTP 205 responses
  - N/A (method not used): Use http-errors for res.format()
  v4.18.1 ... v4.18.3
  - Bug fixes

• fs-extra: Major update (v8.1.0 to v11.2.0)
  Not updated
  Changelog: https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

  Few possible breaking changes, but fundamentally doesn't need to be updated.

• hashids: Major update (v1.2.2 to v2.3.0)
  Rationale: Required to avoid an invalid state loop that occurs in SystemShell.jsx
  Changelog: https://github.com/niieani/hashids.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

  Major changes; rewritten in Typescript
  Breaking changes:
  - when used from Node (without ESM enabled), you now need to require('hashids/cjs')
  - Hashids now throws errors when being constructed with incorrect options (previously, it silently falled back to defaults)

• ip: Major update (v1.1.5 to v2.0.1 v1.1.9)
  Rationale: Node v18 support added in v1.1.6+; CVEs "fixed" in v1.1.9+ or 2.0.1+
  Changelog: None provided; inferred from commit history

  Active CVEs on this project and seems unmaintained: Security Advisory: NPM ip package still incorrectly identifies some private IP addresses as public indutny/node-ip#150

• lokijs: Patch update (v1.5.7 to v1.5.12)
  Not updated
  Changelog: None maintained beyond 1.5.7

• multer: Patch update (v1.4.2 to v1.4.5-lts.1)
  Rationale: Resolves DoS vulnerability and 1.4.2 is deprecated (CVE-2022-24434: DoS affecting dicer (sub-dependency) expressjs/multer#1254)
  Changelog: None maintained beyond 1.4.2

  Of consequence, this issue casts doubt on the level of Node support provided by moving to the 2.x series. The 1.4.5-lts.1 version does not refer to fs-temp as noted in the issue.

• stacktrace-js: Patch update (v2.0.1 to v2.0.2)
  Rationale: Contains vulnerability fixes
  Changelogs:
  https://github.com/stacktracejs/stacktrace.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (not maintained beyond 2.0.0)
  https://github.com/stacktracejs/stacktrace.js/releases/tag/v2.0.2

  Dependency update (to address a vulnerability in [email protected]) and sourcemap fix

• superagent: Major update (v5.1.0 to v8.1.2 v8.0.9)
  Rationale: Deprecated, authors indicate v7.1.5 or v8.0.0+ be used instead. v8.0.3 first mention of Node v18 support
  Changelog: https://github.com/ladjs/superagent/releases

  v5.x to v6.x:
  - N/A (Not opting into retry): Retry behavior is still opt-in, however we now have a more fine-grained list of status codes and error codes that we retry against (see updated docs)
  v6.x to v7.0:
  - Browser behaviour changed to match Node when serializing application/x-www-form-urlencoded, using arrayFormat: 'indices' semantics of qs library. (See: https://www.npmjs.com/package/qs#stringifying)
  v7.0 to v8.0:
  - N/A (Not used): ActiveXObject gone

• tracer: Major update (v0.9.9 to v1.3.0)
  Rationale: Several security fixes contained within update path; only package updates otherwise
  Changelog: https://github.com/baryon/tracer?tab=readme-ov-file#history

• uuid: Major update (v3.3.3 to v9.0.1)
  Not updated
  Changelog: https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

  Significant Changes

  v7.0.0:
  - N/A (not using default method): Default method removed
  - ESM/CJS split build introduced
  - Insecure RNG not allowed in browsers
  v8.0.0:
  - N/A (not using ESM): ESM only supports named exports

• ws: Major update (v7.1.2 to v8.16.0 v7.5.9)
  Rationale: NodeJS compatibility, important backports
  Changelog: https://github.com/websockets/ws/releases

  Significant Changes

  v7.2.5: Fix compatibility with NodeJS:master
  v7.4.0: Provides access to HTTP GET request during socket 'connection' event; used in NetCreate-Auth/Access-Lite to propagate JWT user information between Express+WSS events
  v7.4.6: Regex DoS vulnerability fix
  v7.5.x: Backports (last on July 15th 2022)

Packages Updated (Web-pack Stack)

• copy-webpack-plugin: (v4.5.4 to v12.0.2)
• html-webpack-plugin: (v3.2.0 to v5.6.0)
• mini-css-extract-plugin: Major update (v0.4.3 to v2.8.0)
• optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin: Removed
• uglifyjs-webpack-plugin: Removed
• webpack: (v4.41.0 to v5.90.3)
• webpack-cli: (v3.3.9 to v5.1.4)
• webpack-dev-middleware: (v3.7.2 to v7.0.0)
• webpack-dev-server: (v3.8.1 to v5.0.2)
• webpack-hot-middleware: (v2.25.0 to v2.26.1)

Packages Updated (Front-end)

• @dagrejs/graphlib
• MUI (v4 to v5)
• bootstrap
• classnames
• clsx
• color
• cropperjs
• electron
• jquery
• prop-types
• react, react-dom
• react-draggable
• react-router
• react-router-config
• react-router-dom
• react-router-proptypes
• reactstrap
• rfdc (Really Fast Deep Clone); only used on FE
• styled-components (introduced)
• webrtc-adapter: (removed: not used)