alerta-webui doesn't install on node 18 or above

[Matthew-Jenkins]

Issue Summary
Unable to compile alerta on node 18, which is the oldest still supported version of node.

Environment

• OS: Rhel8 & Fedora 38

• API version: master

• Deployment: N/A

• For self-hosted, WSGI environment: N/A

• Database: Postgres

• Server config:
  Auth enabled? No
  Auth provider? N/A
  Customer views? No

• web UI version: master

• CLI version: N/A

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install node 18 or 20
2. clone alerta-webui
3. npm install

npm install will fail due to multiple no longer maintained libs not working on node18

Expected behavior
npm install should exit 0

Screenshots

Additional context
Looks like dependency hell. I tried doing a quick and dirty uplift to vuetify latest w/ vite but the best I could get is a white screen with nothing displayed after about 12 hours of work.

[crocchietta]

Good morning.
The latest version of web-ui is almost 2 years old. I also tried to compile it but I get many errors or other security alerts.
Is this project dead?
Has anyone managed to compile it with a recent environment?

[hyberdk]

Hi @crocchietta,

Yeah the UI could use some TLC. @headphonejames did a push to upgrade to Vue3, but I did not try it out myself. Unfortunately I am not really a frontend dev, so I am pretty useless in that area..

if you want to check it out, its this branch: https://github.com/alerta/alerta-webui/tree/update-vue2-to-vue3

Any help here would be appreciated Im sure :-)

I do compile the UI from code, when building my docker container, but yes there are many warnings and such.. not ideal..

Esben