Minimum version of node.js for benchmarking/src to work

[danshearer]

I think I understood from Keith that the minimum node version number is 12. Version 8.x is what is shipped with Ubuntu 18.04 .

Need to check:

• precise minimum nodejs version required
• which common distributions do not have this version
• recommended minimum instructions to install nodejs on these operating systems

[maxwell-k]

To answer some of those questions:

• for the test suite that checks the JavaScript code to pass, Node JS 12
• (I'll leave this second question for someone else to answer)
• https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager

The requirement for Node JS 12 was documented via benchmarking/README.md in the first PR that introduced any JavaScript code.

This issue is related to https://github.com/LumoSQL/LumoSQL/pull/31.

[maxwell-k]

Node JS 12 is the active long-term-support version: https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/

[danshearer]

Closing. This is documented and also fairly obvious. Thanks.