Upgrade project + dependencies to more recent versions #39
Description
Given that this project currently runs on something around nodeJS v8 (with the dependencies being similarly as outdated) along with difficultes in getting the project to build (e.g. when working through #38), it is probably worth at least looking into bumping the project's NodeJS version and npm dependencies to something more recent.
This will undoubtedly lead to lots of breaking changes due to dependencies possibly getting bumped by several major versions, but it will allow further development to the project, if we ever want to do it, to be a lot easier.