[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52341: Upgrade old branches to run on NodeJS LTS (currently 14.x)

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#52341: Upgrade old branches to run on NodeJS LTS (currently 14.x)
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 Reporter:  desrosj                                 |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high                                    |   Milestone:  5.7
Component:  Build/Test Tools                        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by desrosj):

 Few more notes:
 - I also did not backport tools that were not present in the branch. For
 example, JS documentation linting added in 5.5 was not backported, coding
 standards tooling that was added in 5.1 was not backported, etc.
 - For the `.nvmrc` file, I currently have `14` as the value. `lts/* was
 present in many newer branches, but the best approach for this is not
 clear to me. Using 14 would require a commit to each branch moving forward
 when new LTS versions are released. But it would also prevent branches
 from suddenly failing.
 - I updated the `engines` values in the `package.json` file to be ranges,
 using `>=`. With the deprecation of `engines-strict`, these values are
 merely suggestions, so this seems OK, but open to learning best practices
 here.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52341#comment:20>
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