chore: use Node.js >=18.17.0

remove `msvs_version` npm config on win32
Ref: nodejs/node-gyp#2822

Signed-off-by: Akos Kitta <a.kitta@arduino.cc>

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install Node.js 16.14
+      - name: Install Node.js 18.17
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '16.14'
+          node-version: '18.17'
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
           cache: 'yarn'
 
@@ -131,10 +131,6 @@ jobs:
             export CSC_FOR_PULL_REQUEST=true
           fi
 
-          if [ "${{ runner.OS }}" = "Windows" ]; then
-            npm config set msvs_version 2017 --global
-          fi
-
           npx node-gyp install
           yarn install --immutable
 

.github/workflows/check-i18n-task.yml

@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install Node.js 16.14
+      - name: Install Node.js 18.17
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '16.14'
+          node-version: '18.17'
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
           cache: 'yarn'
 

.github/workflows/compose-full-changelog.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 env:
   CHANGELOG_ARTIFACTS: changelog
   # See: https://github.com/actions/setup-node/#readme
-  NODE_VERSION: 16.x
+  NODE_VERSION: '18.17'
 
 jobs:
   create-changelog:

.github/workflows/i18n-nightly-push.yml

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install Node.js 16.14
+      - name: Install Node.js 18.17
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '16.14'
+          node-version: '18.17'
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
           cache: 'yarn'
 

.github/workflows/i18n-weekly-pull.yml

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install Node.js 16.14
+      - name: Install Node.js 18.17
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '16.14'
+          node-version: '18.17'
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
           cache: 'yarn'
 

docs/internal/Ubuntu.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ### Building and start the app from the sources on Ubuntu Linux
 
-Tested and verified on Ubuntu 18.04.4. The source will be checked out to `~/dev/git/arduino-ide`.
+Tested and verified on Ubuntu 22.04. The source will be checked out to `~/dev/git/arduino-ide`.
+
+> ❗ This is an all-in-one script to create production-ready, minified code; you will need ~16GB of RAM to run it. This script will install libraries you might already have on your system and change the default Node.js version you do not want. If you look for documentation on development, please reference [this](../development.md#prerequisites) section instead.
 
 ```
 #!/bin/bash -i
@@ -11,23 +13,25 @@ sudo apt update \
   gcc \
   curl \
   make \
-  python \
+  python3 \
   pkg-config \
   libx11-dev \
   libxkbfile-dev \
   build-essential \
+  libsecret-1-dev \
 && wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash \
 && source ~/.bashrc \
-&& nvm install 16 \
-&& nvm use 16 \
-&& nvm alias default 16 \
+&& nvm install 18.17 \
+&& nvm use 18.17 \
+&& nvm alias default 18.17 \
 && curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - \
 && echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list \
 && sudo apt update && sudo apt install --no-install-recommends yarn \
 && mkdir -p ~/dev/git/ \
 && rm -rf ~/dev/git/arduino-ide \
 && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide.git ~/dev/git/arduino-ide \
 && yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide \
-&& yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide rebuild:electron \
-&& yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide/electron-app start
+&& yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide/electron-app rebuild \
+&& yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide build \
+&& yarn --cwd ~/dev/git/arduino-ide start
 ```

package.json

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "private": true,
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=16.14.0 <17"
+    "node": ">=18.17.0 <21"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@theia/cli": "1.39.0",