Updating packages to address high severity alerts #163
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This change was made due to updating copy-webpack-plugin
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This PR updates as many packages with as few major breaking changes as possible in order to fix high severity dependabot alerts. There will be follow up PR(s) made to address the packages that will need major updates in order to address the remaining vulnerabilities.
There are 42 dependabot alerts at the time of creating this PR. After merging, there are now 13.
GUS: W-19586252
Changes made:
react-hot-loaderandreact-selectuglifyjs-webpack-plugin→terser-webpack-plugineslint-plugin-nodeto addresssemvervulnlint-stagedandbabel-jestto addressbracesvulncopy-webpack-plugin,webpack, andwebpack-clito addressssribabel-loader,css-loader,mini-css-extract-plugin,style-loader, andfile-loaderto addressjson5d3ford3-colorvuln. Also upgradedbabel-coreto@babel/corealong with related packages, and replaced.babelrcwith.babelrc.jsas part of the breaking changes involved with upgradingwebpack-bundle-analyzerto removebody-parservulnnpandjest-css-modules-transformfordot-propvulnnp(again) andwebpack-clito addressinivulnHigh severity alerts that should also resolve as a result of the changes made above:
To test:
yarn install && yarn buildyarn testyarn linkIn herokudata-frontend repo:
yarn link "@heroku/react-hk-components"yarn && yarn startNext steps
The three major sources of vulnerabilities are
webpack,eslint, andjest. Updating any of these packages will likely have major breaking changes, which is why I plan to split them out into separate PRs.