Bump the frontend to node 26 and install pnpm directly

README.md

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ There are some additional urls below to access specific parts of the system.
 ### Local workflow
 
 #### Prerequisites
-- The SvelteKit UI requires: node v20+
+- The SvelteKit UI requires: node v26+
 - The .NET API requires: dotnet sdk v8+
 
 #### Running the project

frontend/Dockerfile

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
 # TODO: can't use vanilla alpine version since python is needed for gql-codegen stuff.
-FROM node:20 AS builder-base
+FROM node:26 AS builder-base
 WORKDIR /app
-# Version of corepack distributed with node currently (2025-02-04) has a bug that prevents PNPM installation; latest version has the bugfix
-RUN npm install -g corepack@latest
-RUN corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@10.24.0 --activate
+RUN npm install -g pnpm@10.24.0
 
 FROM builder-base AS builder
 
@@ -19,7 +17,7 @@ ENV VITE_APP_VERSION=$APP_VERSION
 
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.local/share/pnpm/store pnpm run build
 
-FROM node:20-alpine
+FROM node:26-alpine
 # container would not receive SIGTERM from docker when shutting down so Docker would force kill
 # the container after 10s.  This will make shutdown faster because the SIGTERM will be handled appropriately.
 # https://maximorlov.com/process-signals-inside-docker-containers/

frontend/README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Requests come into a node app managed by Sveltekit for static, CSR, or SSR.  Dat
 
 ### Development
 
-Node needs to be installed locally. The `pnpm` package manager should be installed: if you don't already have it, run `corepack enable` and it will be set up.
+Node needs to be installed locally. The `pnpm` package manager should be installed: see [pnpm.io/installation](https://pnpm.io/installation).
 
 Once you've installed dependencies with `pnpm install`, start a development server:
 

frontend/Taskfile.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ tasks:
       - pnpm-lock.yaml
       - pnpm-workspace.yaml
     cmds:
-      - corepack enable || true
       - pnpm install
 
   fw-lite-infr:
@@ -88,7 +87,6 @@ tasks:
       - ../pnpm-lock.yaml
       - ../pnpm-workspace.yaml
     cmds:
-      - corepack enable || true
       - pnpm install
   run-https-proxy:
     dir: ./https-proxy

frontend/dev.Dockerfile

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
 # TODO: can't use vanilla alpine version since python is needed for gql-codegen stuff.
-FROM node:20 AS builder
+FROM node:26 AS builder
 
-# Version of corepack distributed with node currently (2025-02-04) has a bug that prevents PNPM installation; latest version has the bugfix
-RUN npm install -g corepack@latest
-RUN corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@10.24.0 --activate
+RUN npm install -g pnpm@10.24.0
 WORKDIR /app
 
 COPY package.json pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-workspace.yaml /app/

frontend/https-proxy/package.json

@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
   "version": "0.0.1",
   "private": true,
   "packageManager": "pnpm@10.24.0",
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=20",
-    "pnpm": ">=9"
-  },
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite"

frontend/package.json

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
   "private": true,
   "packageManager": "pnpm@10.24.0",
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=20",
-    "pnpm": ">=9"
+    "node": ">=26",
+    "pnpm": ">=10"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite dev",

frontend/viewer/Taskfile.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ tasks:
       - ../pnpm-lock.yaml
       - ../pnpm-workspace.yaml
     cmds:
-      - corepack enable || true
       - pnpm install
   test:
     cmd: pnpm test

frontend/viewer/package.json

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
   "name": "viewer",
   "private": true,
   "packageManager": "pnpm@10.24.0",
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=20",
-    "pnpm": ">=9"
-  },
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {