With Node.js 8.x nearing end-of-life status at the end of this year, and
Node.js 12 now in LTS, we think it makes sense to finalize Meteor 1.9
sooner rather than later, and continue working to take advantage of all
the great features of Node 12 in future 1.9.x releases.
As usual, the meaning of "release candidate" is that we can still fix bugs
before the final release, but there will be no new features added.
When we run 'meteor test-packages' as part of our Circle CI test rotation,
we happen to be testing the Meteor `jquery` package along with all of our
other packages, so it has a chance to define `window.jQuery` globally, so
everything seems to work.
However, if you run `test-packages` with a subset of packages that does
not include or depend on `jquery`, there will be errors in the browser
console about `jQuery` not being defined, because the `test-in-browser`
package depends on `blaze`, which implicitly depends on `jquery`.
Although the Meteor jquery package is no long a core package (and thus is
not tied to the Meteor release), it seems like a good idea to nudge folks
towards installing jquery from npm, instead of relying on the very old
version (1.12.1) residing in meteor/packages/non-core/jquery/jquery.js.
Closes#10289.
Adding native `bcrypt` to a project may require build tools be available on the system. This commit adds a note about that, and a link to the node-gyp documentation that best explains which tools to install. For more details, see this issue: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/10113
Should help with #10795.
Also updating the meteor-babel and @babel/runtime versions in the dev
bundle, though there is no need to rebuild the dev bundle immediately.
* remove jquery and deprecated bootstrap dependency in test-in-browser
Another step towards https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/10498
The direct jquery dependency was not necessary as far as I can tell. There was a second indirect dependency through the deprecated bootstrap package from which we only need the css.
So I replaced that one with bootstrap 4 css from npm
* Improve styling for test-in-browser
