Migrate extension to node 18

[karthiknadig]

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[karrtikr]

Are you able to reproduce this issue locally? Try running npm run compile inside the pythonExtensionApi directory.

[karthiknadig]

Compile passes but this still fails locally:

[karrtikr]

Compile passes

I assume this was run inside the api directory.

Can we also upgrade the node used by devcontainers/codespaces? cc/ @anthonykim1

[anthonykim1]

Can we also upgrade the node used by devcontainers/codespaces? cc/ @anthonykim1

Yes! That should be totally possible @karrtikr
I can take care of that. #21949

[karthiknadig]

Compile passes

I assume this was run inside the api directory.

Yes it was run in the API directory.

[karrtikr]

@karthiknadig Error is coming from a package https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-typescript which hasn't been updated in 4 years, so likely isn't adaptive to Node18.

Is there a way to make the package use our "source-map" dependency instead of its own node_modules/gulp-typescript/node_modules/source-map?

[karthiknadig]

Can we just drop gulp? Use nox as task runner.

[karrtikr]

@karthiknadig #21937 (comment) should be fixed now.

[karrtikr]

Can we just drop gulp? Use nox as task runner.

Except for one package

I think we can find nox-equivalent for most other stuff.

[karrtikr]

We should also create/link an issue corresponding to this PR.

[karthiknadig]

We might need to update the test runner. Seems to be failing on windows

[karthiknadig]

@karthiknadig I think we can move everything over to nox. See here for implementation of node-has-native-dependencies. It is just looking for files by name binding.gyp: https://github.com/sramam/node-has-native-dependencies/blob/master/index.js

[karrtikr]

Did not have permission to rebase and force push on this branch hence created a new PR: #22135.