Migrate to use of ES Modules (#667)

- Moves minimum node version to v18 (latest LTS at time of PR)
- Changes gauge-js to an ES module, removing all use of CommonJS requires
- Prefers use of node: prefixed imports
- Upgrades and de-duplicates dependencies to latest

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Signed-off-by: Chad Wilson <chadw@thoughtworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Zabil Cheriya Maliackal <zabilcm@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Zabil Cheriya Maliackal <zabilcm@gmail.com>

Author: chadlwilson

README.md

@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ The plugin is authored in [Javascript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript)
 Gauge is authored in golang. These are independent processes talking to each other over TCP on port GAUGE_INTERNAL_PORT (env variable) using [Protobuf](https://github.com/getgauge/gauge-proto).
 
 ##### Pre-Requisites
-* [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) - Version >= 16
-* [Npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
+* [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) - Version >= 18
 
 ##### Compiling
 ```

eslint.config.mjs eslint.config.jseslint.config.mjs renamed to eslint.config.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export default [
       mocha
     },
     languageOptions: {
-      ecmaVersion: 8,
+      ecmaVersion: 11,
       globals: {
         node: true,
         es6: true,

examples/tests/step_implementation.js

@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@
 /**
  * Loads the `assert` module provided by NodeJS
  */
-var assert = require("assert");
-
+import assert from "node:assert";
 
 /**
  * Loads the local `vowels.js` module present in this directory
  */
-var vowels = require("./vowels");
+import vowels from "./vowels.js";
 
 
 // --------------------------

examples/tests/vowels.js

@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
-/**
- * Use `module.exports` to export an object which can be used with a `require()` on this file.
- */
+const vowelList = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"];
 
-var vowelList = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"];
-
-var numVowels = function (word) {
-  var vowelArr = word.split("").filter(function (elem) { return vowelList.indexOf(elem) > -1; });
+const numVowels = function (word) {
+  const vowelArr = word.split("").filter(function (elem) {
+    return vowelList.indexOf(elem) > -1;
+  });
   return vowelArr.length;
 };
 
-module.exports = {
+export default {
   vowelList: vowelList,
   numVowels: numVowels
 };

index.js

@@ -1,63 +1,75 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env node
 
-var version = process.versions.node.split(".");
-if (parseInt(version[0]) < 16) {
-  throw new Error("gauge-js requires Node.js version 16+. Current version: " + process.versions.node);
+const minNodeVersion = 18;
+const version = process.versions.node.split(".");
+if (Number.parseInt(version[0]) < minNodeVersion) {
+  throw new Error(
+    `gauge-js requires Node.js version ${minNodeVersion}+. Current version: ${process.versions.node}`,
+  );
 }
 
-var fs = require("fs"),
-  path = require("path"),
-  child_process = require("child_process");
+import child_process from "node:child_process";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
 
-var skeldir = path.join(__dirname, "skel"),
-  srcdir = path.join(process.env.GAUGE_PROJECT_ROOT, "tests"),
-  envdir = path.join(process.env.GAUGE_PROJECT_ROOT, "env", "default"),
-  testCode = "step_implementation.js",
-  jsPropertyFile = "js.properties";
 
-if (process.argv[2] === "--init") {
+const skeldir = path.join(__dirname, "skel");
+const srcdir = path.join(process.env.GAUGE_PROJECT_ROOT, "tests");
+const envdir = path.join(process.env.GAUGE_PROJECT_ROOT, "env", "default");
+const testCode = "step_implementation.js";
+const jsPropertyFile = "js.properties";
 
+if (process.argv[2] === "--init") {
   console.log("Initialising Gauge JavaScript project");
-  fs.mkdir(srcdir, 484, function (err) {
+  fs.mkdir(srcdir, 484, (err) => {
     if (err && err.code !== "EEXIST") {
       console.error(err);
     } else {
-      fs.createReadStream(path.join(skeldir, testCode))
-        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(path.join(srcdir, testCode)));
+      fs.createReadStream(path.join(skeldir, testCode)).pipe(
+        fs.createWriteStream(path.join(srcdir, testCode)),
+      );
     }
   });
 
-  fs.mkdir(path.dirname(envdir), 484, function (err) {
+  fs.mkdir(path.dirname(envdir), 484, (err) => {
     if (err && err.code !== "EEXIST") {
       console.error(err);
     } else {
-      fs.mkdir(envdir, 484, function (err) {
+      fs.mkdir(envdir, 484, (err) => {
         if (err && err.code !== "EEXIST") {
           console.error(err);
         } else {
-          fs.createReadStream(path.join(skeldir, jsPropertyFile))
-            .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(path.join(envdir, jsPropertyFile)));
+          fs.createReadStream(path.join(skeldir, jsPropertyFile)).pipe(
+            fs.createWriteStream(path.join(envdir, jsPropertyFile)),
+          );
         }
       });
     }
   });
-}
-
-else if (process.argv[2] === "--start") {
-  var args = ["./src/gauge.js", "--run"];
+} else if (process.argv[2] === "--start") {
+  let args = ["./src/gauge.js", "--run"];
   if (process.env.gauge_nodejs_args) {
     args = process.env.gauge_nodejs_args.split(" ").concat(args);
   }
-  var cmd = process.env.gauge_nodejs_bin || "node";
-  var runner = child_process.spawn(cmd, args, { env: process.env, silent: false, stdio: "inherit" });
+  const cmd = process.env.gauge_nodejs_bin || "node";
+  const runner = child_process.spawn(cmd, args, {
+    env: process.env,
+    silent: false,
+    stdio: "inherit",
+  });
   process.on("beforeExit", (code) => {
     try {
-      if (!runner.killed) { runner.kill("SIGINT"); }
+      if (!runner.killed) {
+        runner.kill("SIGINT");
+      }
     } finally {
       process.exit(code);
     }
   });
-  runner.on("error", function (err) {
+  runner.on("error", (err) => {
     console.trace(err.stack);
   });
 }

js.json

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
             "--init"
         ]
     },
-    "version": "4.0.1",
+    "version": "5.0.0",
     "gaugeVersionSupport": {
         "minimum": "1.0.7",
         "maximum": ""