feat!: upgraded to node v18, added .nvmrc and updated workflows (#452)

BREAKING CHANGE: upgrade node JS to support to v18

* feat: upgraded to node v18, added .nvmrc and updated workflows

* refactor: updated packages

Author: BilalQamar95

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -11,23 +11,17 @@ on:
 jobs:
   tests:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        node: [16]
-        npm: [8.5.x]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
+      - name: Setup Nodejs Env
+        run: echo "NODE_VER=`cat .nvmrc`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Setup Nodejs
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: "${{ matrix.node }}"
-
-      # This is a temporary "hack" to unblock CI/releases, as ideally we should avoid needing to pin NPM to a specific minor version. By doing
-      # so, we are basically deferring clean up of peer dependencies to a later time. See https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4664 for more details.
-      - name: Pin NPM version
-        run: npm install -g npm@${{ matrix.npm }}
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VER }}
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci

.github/workflows/lockfileversion-check.yml

@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   version-check:
-    uses: openedx/.github/.github/workflows/lockfileversion-check.yml@master
+    uses: openedx/.github/.github/workflows/lockfileversion-check-v3.yml@master

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      - name: Setup Nodejs Env
+        run: echo "NODE_VER=`cat .nvmrc`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Setup Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: 18
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VER }}
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci

.nvmrc

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-v16
-
+18