Remove deprecated UI dependencies

[bossenti]

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When installing our UI dependencies, some deprecation warnings occur, see https://github.com/apache/streampipes/actions/runs/4050714717/jobs/6968365235#step:4:7.
This ticket is about removing/replacing them by their successors.

Mentoring

As this ticket is marked as good first issue: one of @dominikriemer, @tenthe, @bossenti or @smlabt are happy to provide help for getting started, just tag (one of) them if you want to start working on this issue and need some help.

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[azher-alnabi]

Hey there, are you still looking for someone to remove the deprecated UI dependencies? If so, I'm willing to give it a shot! Are you looking to replace all 11 depreciated dependencies?

[azher-alnabi]

@bossenti

[bossenti]

@azher-alnabi welcome to StreamPipes 🎉
Yes that would be ideal.
But if a library cannot be replaced easily, we can also create a dedicated issue for that

[azher-alnabi]

Sounds wonderful, is there any low-hanging fruit with regards to where you would like me to start? Also, what would you like me to replace them with?

[bossenti]

I would guess that the easiest one might be Chokidar 2 where you just have to migrate to Chokidar 3.
With respect to the others, I would suggest to screen the docs of the deprecated libraries where you probably can find hints for replacements.

[azher-alnabi]

Sounds good, I'll get started.

[azher-alnabi]

Sorry, I'm a little new at this. Would I just have to fork streampipes, swap out Chokidar2 with 3 then open a PR? @bossenti

[bossenti]

Yes, exactly 👍🏼
If you need any help, just let us know :)

[azher-alnabi]

I narrowed the Chokidar2 dependencies down to "node_modules/watchpack-chokidar2" in the UI folder. This is the biggest codebase I've opened, so I'm unsure if I'm looking at the correct file. This was under package-lock.json. Here is also what I'm looking at watchpack, and watchpack-chokidar2. Also, how would I do testing to make sure that if I changed something, it didn't break anything downstream.

[azher-alnabi]

@bossenti