Upgrade Node and other packages

[we-ai]

Currently Node version 14 is running our backend services. With Node 14 maintenance ended on 4-30-2023, and Node 16 maintenance ended on 9-11-2023, continue using these versions might have risks. If we don't want to use the newest version, Node 18 might be good for us. It is maintained until 2025.

[anthonypetersen]

is there anything we need to do besides update the Node version being utilized for our Cloud Functions?

[abhinavjonnada82]

Highly suggest for Node & Firebase upgrade across our ecosystem. https://github.com/episphere/connectFaas/pull/430#discussion_r1337661509

We could leverage new features in Firebase & Node for faster performance.

[we-ai]

As mentioned by @abhinavjonnada82 above, besides Node, other packages also need upgrades. For example:

• FirebaseUI has v6; we're using v3.5
• Firebase has v10; we're using v7.14
• Firebase Admin has v11; we're using v9.10

[bransteitterbr]

As of this posting Node.js version 20 is the current lts so that would be the version I would target

[jhflorey]

Approved PR https://github.com/episphere/connectFaas/pull/498

[bransteitterbr]

Merged to dev and ready for testing