Document and/or Upgrade Node Version

[brentarias]

I'm using node version 7.7.4 (x64) on windows. I tried cloning NG6-starter and installing (from JSPM branch), but I'm getting gyp compilation errors. Based on posts like this or that, I think I need to downgrade the version of node I'm using.

Could you change the README to indicate what version-range of Node is valid? Also, would it make sense to upgrade package.json dependencies so that the latest node could be used?

For context, here are some of the errors I received during npm i:

npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.

And...

> ws@0.4.32 install C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)


C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "" rebuild )
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
  bufferutil.cc
  win_delay_load_hook.cc
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(400): warning C4996: 'v8::ScriptCompiler::CompileUnbound': was declared deprecated (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
  C:\Users\baria\.node-gyp\7.7.4\include\node\v8.h(1358): note: see declaration of 'v8::ScriptCompiler::CompileUnbound' (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc)
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(405): warning C4996: 'v8::String::NewExternal': was declared deprecated (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
  C:\Users\baria\.node-gyp\7.7.4\include\node\v8.h(2583): note: see declaration of 'v8::String::NewExternal' (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc)
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2039: 'ExternalAsciiStringResource': is not a member of 'v8::String' (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
  C:\Users\baria\.node-gyp\7.7.4\include\node\v8.h(2320): note: see declaration of 'v8::String' (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc)
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2065: 'ExternalAsciiStringResource': undeclared identifier (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2065: 'resource': undeclared identifier (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2433: 'NanNew': '__forceinline' not permitted on data declarations (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2365: 'NanNew': redefinition; previous definition was 'function' (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(409): error C2448: 'NanNew': function-style initializer appears to be a function definition (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) [C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\karma\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\repos\angular\NG6-starter\node_modules\nan\nan.h(415): warning C4996: 'v8::BooleanObject::New': was declared deprecated (compiling source file ..\src\bufferutil.cc) 

The install then finished with this:

npm WARN karma-chai@0.1.0 requires a peer of chai@* but none was installed.
npm WARN karma-mocha@0.1.10 requires a peer of mocha@* but none was installed.
npm WARN angular-jspm-starter@0.0.1 No repository field.

[fesor]

This repository should work with npm v3+.

No repository field.

this should be part of your project.

as for peer dependencies and deprecations, this should be fixed since this may affect users which is using npm v4+