Upgrade Caliper to NodeJS v14 (LTS)

[nklincoln]

engines.node is currently set at 10 ... we should bump this to the LTS version of node, which in now v14

Consequences:

This impacts on Fabric SDK binding (only able to bind to latest), consequently we would have to:

• only bind to 1.4 and 2.2 latest (that uses grpc-js)
• provide guidance (or an alternative image?) for those wishing/restricted to lower versions of the SDKs

Alterations:

• All packages
• Travis build
• Caliper image
• Documentation for building own image and/or specifying custom bindings (enhanced binding stage/page)
• Breaking change, version bump required

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[naonishijima]

Would it be possible to give me an update on this issue? Is there something I can help with?

[aklenik]

@naonishijima Feel free to join the caliper-contributors Rocket.Chat channel, where we can discuss the details and steps of the version bump: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/caliper-contributors

[fraVlaca]

picking up this issue and updating dependencies to run caliper on node 14 LTS (v14.19.0 (npm v6.14.16))

[fraVlaca]

• move as many npm dependencies to the latest versions available(Fabric dependencies need to stick to 1.4 rather than 2.2)
• remove the "^" symbols (because of the colors npm module being sabotaged) and using explicit versions
• ship package-lock.json files

[davidkel]

@naonishijima @aklenik
Current status

• caliper 0.4.2 can be used with node 14, the only issue is that the fabric 1.4 SUT can't be used
• The caliper repo itself now works with node 14 (although it's not optimised as yet) with a couple more updates to come to complete (ie 2 integration test builds to move to node 14, creation of the docker image to use node14)

[davidkel]

I think this issue is now done, there are some follow-ons as described in these issues
#1222
#1217
#1125