MLE-24763 Requiring Node 22 or higher

[rjrudin]

Using .npmrc instead of custom script to cause an error on npm install.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the Node.js version requirement from 16.14 to 22.0 and modernizes the version enforcement mechanism by replacing a custom validation script with npm's built-in engine-strict feature.

Key changes:

• Removes custom Node.js version checking script in favor of npm's native engine enforcement
• Updates minimum Node.js version requirement to 22.0.0
• Bumps package version to 4.0.0 (major version due to breaking change in Node.js requirement)

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
package.json	Removed preinstall/prestart/pretest hooks for version checking, updated engine requirement to Node 22+, bumped version to 4.0.0
checkNodeVersion.js	Deleted custom Node.js version validation script
.npmrc	Added engine-strict configuration to enforce Node.js version requirement

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[Copilot]

The .npmrc file uses JSON format, but .npmrc files should use INI format (key=value pairs). The correct syntax should be engine-strict=true without braces or quotes.

Suggested change

	{
	"engine-strict": true
	}
	engine-strict=true

[github-actions]

Copyright Validation Results
Total: 3 | Passed: 0 | Failed: 0 | Skipped: 3 | at: 2025-10-17 19:09:10 UTC | commit: 92f2ab9

⏭️ Skipped (Excluded) Files

• .npmrc
• package-lock.json
• package.json

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