reintroduce PR check that confirm action can be still be compiled on node16

Author: nickfyson

.github/workflows/pr-checks.yml

@@ -15,13 +15,39 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 45
 
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        node-types-version: [12.16, current]
+
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Lint
         run: npm run-script lint
 
+      - name: Update version of @types/node
+        if: matrix.node-types-version != 'current'
+        env:
+          NODE_TYPES_VERSION: ${{ matrix.node-types-version }}
+        run: |
+          # Export `NODE_TYPES_VERSION` so it's available to jq
+          export NODE_TYPES_VERSION="${NODE_TYPES_VERSION}"
+          contents=$(jq '.devDependencies."@types/node" = env.NODE_TYPES_VERSION' package.json)
+          echo "${contents}" > package.json
+          # Usually we run `npm install` on macOS to ensure that we pick up macOS-only dependencies.
+          # However we're not checking in the updated lockfile here, so it's fine to run
+          # `npm install` on Linux.
+          npm install
+
+          if [ ! -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
+            git config --global user.email "github-actions@github.com"
+            git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+            # The period in `git add --all .` ensures that we stage deleted files too.
+            git add --all .
+            git commit -m "Use @types/node=${NODE_TYPES_VERSION}"
+          fi
+
       - name: Check generated JS
         run: .github/workflows/script/check-js.sh