chore: drop support for Node.js 16 and lower

BREAKING CHANGE: Drop support for Node.js 16 and lower

Signed-off-by: dhmlau <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 5
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [14, 16, 18] # Maintenance, Active LTS & Current
+        node-version: [18, 20] # Maintenance, Active LTS & Current
       fail-fast: false
     services:
       postgres:
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 16 # LTS
+          node-version: 18 # LTS
       - run: npm ci --ignore-scripts
       - name: Verify code linting
         run: npx --no eslint .
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 16 # LTS
+          node-version: 18 # LTS
       - run: npm ci --ignore-scripts
       - name: Verify commit linting
         run: npx --no -p @commitlint/cli commitlint --from origin/master --to HEAD --verbose

.npmignore

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+node_modules
+.project
+.idea
+.vscode
+coverage
+lib-cov
+*.seed
+*.log
+*.csv
+*.dat
+*.out
+*.pid
+*.gz
+
+pids
+logs
+results
+
+npm-debug.log
+docs
+
+
+test
+.travis.yml

package.json

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   "author": "IBM Corp.",
   "repository": "github:loopbackio/loopback-connector-postgresql",
   "engines": {
-    "node": "14 || 16 || 18"
+    "node": "18 || 20"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "pretest": "node pretest.js",