Nimble does not build with node 18 LTS

[rajsite]

🧹 Tech Debt

Tried to npm run build the nimble repo with the latest Node LTS (v18.12.0) but the build fails with the following error:

> @ni/nimble-components@15.1.1 build-storybook
> build-storybook -o dist/storybook

info @storybook/html v6.5.10
info
info => Cleaning outputDir: C:\dev\github\nimble\packages\nimble-components\dist\storybook
info => Loading presets
info => Copying static files: C:\dev\github\nimble\packages\nimble-components\.storybook\public at C:\dev\github\nimble\packages\nimble-components\dist\storybook\
info => Loading custom manager config
info => Compiling manager..
info => Compiling preview..
info Addon-docs: using MDX1
info => Using implicit CSS loaders
info => Using default Webpack5 setup
10% building 0/1 entries 0/0 dependencies 0/0 modulesinfo => Loading custom manager config
node:internal/crypto/hash:71
  this[kHandle] = new _Hash(algorithm, xofLen);
                  ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:71:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:133:10)
    at BulkUpdateDecorator.hashFactory (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\util\createHash.js:145:18)
    at BulkUpdateDecorator.update (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\util\createHash.js:46:50)
    at OriginalSource.updateHash (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\webpack-sources\lib\OriginalSource.js:138:8)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:888:17)
    at handleParseResult (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:954:10)
    at C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:1048:4
    at processResult (C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:763:11)
    at C:\dev\github\nimble\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:827:5 {
  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}

Node.js v18.12.0
npm ERR! Lifecycle script `build-storybook` failed with error:
npm ERR! Error: command failed
npm ERR!   in workspace: @ni/nimble-components@15.1.1
npm ERR!   at location: C:\dev\github\nimble\packages\nimble-components
npm ERR! Lifecycle script `build` failed with error:
npm ERR! Error: command failed
npm ERR!   in workspace: @ni/nimble-components@15.1.1
npm ERR!   at location: C:\dev\github\nimble\packages\nimble-components

Which seems to be related to webpack/webpack#14532

We may be able to get it to build with some npm update for a newer webpack version, but as-is with the current lock file it will fail to build unless you downgrade to node 16.

I did not test if this impacts clients using nimble (it likely does not impact them). I only tested as a nimble developer building the monorepo.

[rajsite]

Looks like this was resolved by the dependency update in #1000, the error above is shown in the following closed issue storybookjs/storybook#18019

Validated in local build against node 18.3.0 and ci build: https://github.com/ni/nimble/actions/runs/4069291905/jobs/7008855783