BUG: Incorrect Node version installed in edx-platform container

[feanil]

Bug description

The openedx dockerfile is currently hardcoding the version of Node to build for compiling static assets. The version is wrong and it is not respecting the .nvmrc file in the edx-platform repo which is the source of truth for the currently supported Node version.

How to reproduce

• Startup the lms/cms containers ( tutor dev exec lms bash)
• Run node -v to check the version.

Environment

Ubuntu 24.04

Additional context

For openedx frontend environments, the nvm tool is the current default tool for setting up and managing node environments. It may make sense to use that instead of nodeenv.

Install instructions for nvm in docker.

[feanil]

@DawoudSheraz any update on this? Node 18 has already reached end-of-life and so is no longer getting security updates. Can we prioritize this a bit higher?

[DawoudSheraz]

@ahmed-arb FYI

[DawoudSheraz]

Created #1271 to upgrade to node 20. I tested with nvm in Dockerfile but it required the addition of a few ENV variables for it to install successfully. That was making the dockerfile somewhat complex. Sticking with nodeenv for now.