inspect dependencies & replace the deprecated ones

[jerger]

Read about npm-dependencies (https://sambleckley.com/writing/npm.html) and realized, that request is deprecated ...
We should review our dependencies & find out, whether we can replace the outdated ones.

[yogthos]

good call

[jerger]

related: vanita5/mastodon-api#21

[jerger]

related: #64

[jerger]

Overview-Article for alternatives: https://nodesource.com/blog/express-going-into-maintenance-mode

[yogthos]

Looks like it'll make sense to switch to something that's more up to date, but doesn't look too urgent since they're still going to do maintenance and fixes for request.

[jerger]

that's true for request, but twitter was last published 4 years ago.

I tend to try out the request & twitter upgrade in mastodon-bot. For the transient dependencies in mastodon-api I follow your valuation.

[yogthos]

Oh yeah that's pretty dated, I'm definitely up for upgrading to something more recent. :)

[jerger]

FYI: replaced now some parts of request - but the streaming through mastodon-api is quite hard to rework ...

[yogthos]

I guess we could see if there's a more up to date library that we could leverage as well here.