build: Upgrade some of the backend dev-tooling (no-changelog) (#4589)

* upgrade ts-node

* move tslint and typescript to a single place

* source-map-support should be loaded in the `n8n` bin script, and not in core

* upgrade jest

* Support only node.js 14, 16, or 18

packages/cli/bin/n8n

@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
-var path = require('path');
+const path = require('path');
 
 // Make sure that it also find the config folder when it
 // did get started from another folder that the root one.
 process.env.NODE_CONFIG_DIR = process.env.NODE_CONFIG_DIR || path.join(__dirname, 'config');
 
 // Check if version should be displayed
-var versionFlags = [
-	'-v',
-	'-V',
-	'--version',
-];
+const versionFlags = ['-v', '-V', '--version'];
 if (versionFlags.includes(process.argv.slice(-1)[0])) {
 	console.log(require('../package').version);
 	process.exit(0);
@@ -22,13 +18,22 @@ if (process.argv.length === 2) {
 	process.argv.push('start');
 }
 
-var nodeVersion = process.versions.node.split('.');
+const nodeVersion = process.versions.node;
+const nodeVersionMajor = require('semver').major(nodeVersion);
 
-if (parseInt(nodeVersion[0], 10) < 14) {
-	console.log(`\nYour Node.js version (${process.versions.node}) is too old to run n8n.\nPlease update at least to Node.js v14 or to the recommended Node.js v16!\n`);
+if (![14, 16, 18].includes(nodeVersionMajor)) {
+	console.log(`
+	Your Node.js version (${nodeVersion}) is currently not supported by n8n.
+	Please use Node.js v14, v16 (recommended), or v18 instead!
+	`);
 	process.exit(1);
 }
 
-require('@oclif/command').run()
-.then(require('@oclif/command/flush'))
-.catch(require('@oclif/errors/handle'));
+try {
+	require('source-map-support').install();
+} catch {}
+
+require('@oclif/command')
+	.run()
+	.then(require('@oclif/command/flush'))
+	.catch(require('@oclif/errors/handle'));

packages/cli/package.json

@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@
     "concurrently": "^5.1.0",
     "nodemon": "^2.0.2",
     "run-script-os": "^1.0.7",
+    "source-map-support": "^0.5.21",
     "supertest": "^6.2.2",
-    "ts-node": "^8.9.1",
+    "ts-node": "^9.1.1",
     "tsc-alias": "^1.7.0",
-    "tsconfig-paths": "^3.14.1",
-    "typescript": "~4.8.0"
+    "tsconfig-paths": "^3.14.1"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@oclif/command": "^1.8.16",
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
     "posthog-node": "^1.3.0",
     "prom-client": "^13.1.0",
     "psl": "^1.8.0",
+    "semver": "^7.3.8",
     "shelljs": "^0.8.5",
     "sqlite3": "^5.1.2",
     "sse-channel": "^3.1.1",