impr: CPO-539 Upgrade to Node 18.x & npm v9

Author: roystan-tm

.eslintrc.json

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 	],
 	"plugins": ["prettier", "jest", "security"],
 	"parserOptions": {
-		"ecmaVersion": 2021
+		"ecmaVersion": 2023
 	},
 	"rules": {
 		"camelcase": "error",

.github/workflows/npm-merge-workflow.yml

@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
       - uses: actions/setup-node@8c91899e586c5b171469028077307d293428b516 # refers to actions/setup-node@v3.5.1
         with:
-          node-version: 16
-      - run: npm i npm@8 -g
+          node-version: 18
+      - run: npm i npm@9 -g
       - run: npm config set registry https://$ARTIFACTORY_URL
       - run: npm config set replace-registry-host npm.pkg.github.com
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:_auth "$(echo -n $ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL:$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN | base64 -w 0)"
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:email "$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL"
-      - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:always-auth true
       - run: npm install
       - run: npm run check

.github/workflows/version-tag-publish.yml

@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ secrets.GIT_VERSIONING_TOKEN }}
       - uses: actions/setup-node@64ed1c7eab4cce3362f8c340dee64e5eaeef8f7c # v3.6.0
         with:
-          node-version: 16
-      - run: npm i npm@8 -g
+          node-version: 18
+      - run: npm i npm@9 -g
       - name: Version and tag
         id: version
         uses: cloudconformity/npm-version-action@main # no need to a specific hash because we trust internal repos.
@@ -40,19 +40,17 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{needs.Version.outputs.tag_version}}
       - uses: actions/setup-node@64ed1c7eab4cce3362f8c340dee64e5eaeef8f7c # v3.6.0
         with:
-          node-version: 16
-      - run: npm i npm@8 -g
+          node-version: 18
+      - run: npm i npm@9 -g
       # Install
       - run: npm config set registry https://$ARTIFACTORY_URL
       - run: npm config set replace-registry-host npm.pkg.github.com
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:_auth "$(echo -n $ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL:$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN | base64 -w 0)"
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:email "$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL"
-      - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL:always-auth true
       - run: npm ci
       - run: npm run build --if-present
       # Publish to Artifactory
       - run: npm config set registry https://$ARTIFACTORY_URL_PUBLISH
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL_PUBLISH:_auth "$(echo -n $ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL:$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN | base64 -w 0)"
       - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL_PUBLISH:email "$ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN_EMAIL"
-      - run: npm config set //$ARTIFACTORY_URL_PUBLISH:always-auth true
       - run: npm publish