Drop Node 4 & 6 support from CLI

[bahmutov]

When one does npm install cypress one downloads NPM package built in "cli" folder. All production dependencies in "cli/package.json" currently support Node 4+ thus you can install Cypress even if you are rocking Node 4

But I am trying to verify downloaded binary zip file by using hasha in #4193 Hasha has dropped Node 4, 6 support so if we include it in the CLI production dependencies, our cypress npm package will no longer support Node 4 or 6 either.

In fact, it is hard for me to say if all our current production dependencies really run on Node 4 since many packages do not declare engines

Proposal

• stop supporting Node 4

• Node 4 end-of-life was in April 2018 https://github.com/nodejs/Release

• we have stopped testing Cypress on Node 4 Stop testing on Node 4 cypress-test-node-versions#20

(even Node 6 has reached end-of-life as of April 2019)

[jennifer-shehane]

I would like this also. I had to revert some updates that dropped support for Node 4, a lot of packages are dropping and it is preventing us from keeping up to date with their fixes.

I specifically had to revert PR updates for

• commander fix(deps): update dependency commander to version 2.19.0 🌟 #3366
• cachedir Bump cachedir from 1.3.0 -> 2.1.0 #3660

I'd be happy to work on this. Will open a PR.

I think another issue with this is that this will require a breaking change release?

[brian-mann]

Sure - I am in favor of this, we can drop node 4 support in the next release after 3.3.0

[jennifer-shehane]

Ok, so we are planning to release 3.3.0 without dropping Node 4 then we will craft a new 4.0 branch that will drop Node 4 and any PRs that are isolated fixes that we can pull in from the 4.0 epic. #2840 #2880

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#4208, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#5632, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 4.0.0.

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