Help needed with upgrading dependencies

[yurishkuro]

We have many dependabot PRs that are failing CI for various reasons, like mismatching type declarations or API changes in the dependency. Looking for community help to clean this up and keep Jaeger UI up to date.

All outstanding dependency upgrades by label.

• Upgrade plexus to use viz.js@2.x.x #339 or [Feature]: upgrade graph layout library #1081

[SaarthakMaini]

I think this would be good for reference:

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/troubleshooting-dependabot-errors

For the following PR:

#1200

I think the problem is in the

• packages/plexus/demo/src/SimpleGraph.tsx
• packages/plexus/demo/src/UxEdges.tsx
• packages/plexus/demo/src/index.tsx

ReactDOM.render is no longer supported in React 18. Use createRoot instead. Until you switch to the new API, your app will behave as if it’s running React 17.

Please refer to this blog for more details

If possible, please explain how we can help in cleaning this up and keeping the Jaeger UI up to date?

Thank You!

[yurishkuro]

@SaarthakMaini thanks for offering to help. I suspect your analysis above may apply to some upgrades, but others might require other changes.

Either way, the way to proceed is to tackle dependencies one by one. The link in the description points to many unresolved PRs by dependabot, which are failing CI. You can take any of them, run locally to see what test and lint complain about, and make the corresponding changes, like switching to newer APIs. Some might be simpler to fix than others.

[yurishkuro]

@mszabo-wikia do you have a sense of the remaining complexity for these upgrade? You've been doing such a great job pushing upgrades, I'd like to see you be able to call it a victory soon.