Maintenance February 2022

[tylerconstance]

I noticed an issue after spinning up the latest version of strangeluv where I couldn’t interact with any of the buttons or select any text. Some digging revealed this to be an issue caused by the 6.0.10 release of react-error-overlay (strangeluv uses error-overlay-webpack-plugin and react-dev-utils, which both have react-error-overlay as a dependency).

Updates:

• Adds react-error-overlay 6.0.9 as a dev dependency to avoid a bug caused when updating to 6.0.10
• Bumps dotenv to ^16 (changelog)
• Updates error-overlay-webpack-plugin to v1

Other notes:

• We’re putting off the react-router v6 update until we update strange-router
• eslint-webpack-plugin drops support for webpack v4 in 3.0.0 (changelog)
• html-webpack-plugin also drops support for webpack v4 in 5.0.0 (changelog)
• webpack-dev-server will work with webpack 4.37, but recommends v5, so I figured I'd put that upgrade off for now too (changelog)
• Putting off eslint upgrade to v8 until eslint-config-standard-react supports it (Support ESLint 8 standard/eslint-config-standard-react#68)

There's a lot more information about webpack v5 blockers in the writeup for #267, but here's the latest list of major releases we haven't updated to yet:

 history                ^4.10.1  →   ^5.2.0     
 react-router-dom         5.x.x  →    6.x.x     
 copy-webpack-plugin     ^6.0.3  →  ^10.2.4     
 eslint                   7.x.x  →    8.x.x     
 eslint-webpack-plugin    2.x.x  →    3.x.x     
 html-webpack-plugin      4.x.x  →    5.x.x        
 webpack                  4.x.x  →    5.x.x     
 webpack-dev-server       3.x.x  →    4.x.x  

[bmleight]

pulled it down for a 🚗 test drive 🚗 and it went👌