Please make the UI build compatible with NodeJS >= 12

[tsarna]

The Vault UI cannot be built with NodeJS >= 12, which creates packaging difficulties and results in the UI being disabled on Alpine Linux, and perhaps elsewhere. See:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11222

NodeJS 12.x is the current LTS release

[jefferai]

Actually Node 10 is still in active mode and flips to maintenance in about two months (https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/) and is a long way out from being unsupported. Separately from us supporting Node 12, Alpine should really be supporting both releases. This is currently an artificial limitation being imposed by them.

[Ikke]

Alpine Linux already maintains 2 versions of nodejs, at the moment 12.x and 14.x. Having to maintain 10.x as well would be a lot of effort just for vault.

On the other side I understand that it's reasonable to depend on nodejs 10 while it's still supported, but until a newer version of nodejs is supported, we'll have to ship vault without any UI.

[Conan-Kudo]

I'm trying to build Vault for RHEL/CentOS 9, which provides only Nodejs 16. There's basically no way for me to build this because the asset build breaks. I attempted to try to get Nodejs 10 working, but it requires Python 2, which not available in RHEL 9. And I can't build Python 2 because it's not compatible with OpenSSL 3.0. And that's where I say I'm done, because I'm not getting into crypto libraries.

At this point, I implore that Vault fixes this so that it works with a maintained LTS Nodejs version. Additionally, I would like for Vault to bundle generated assets in the source tarball per #7350 and #7770.

[hashishaw]

Hello! We have bumped our required node version to >=14 as of #12049
I'm closing this out but please open a new issue if you run into more problems with the build.