Also add symlinks from the old `bin/` and `tests/` locations to avoid
breaking scripts and other tools.
Motivations:
* Scripts and tests no longer have to do dubious things like:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/foo')
to access packages installed as dependencies in
`src/package.json`.
* Plugins can access the backend test helper library in a non-hacky
way:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/tests/backend/common')
* We can delete the top-level `package.json` without breaking our
ability to lint the files in `bin/` and `tests/`.
Deleting the top-level `package.json` has downsides: It will cause
`npm` to print warnings whenever plugins are installed, npm will
no longer be able to enforce a plugin's peer dependency on
ep_etherpad-lite, and npm will keep deleting the
`node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite` symlink that points to `../src`.
But there are significant upsides to deleting the top-level
`package.json`: It will drastically speed up plugin installation
because `npm` doesn't have to recursively walk the dependencies in
`src/package.json`. Also, deleting the top-level `package.json`
avoids npm's horrible dependency hoisting behavior (where it moves
stuff from `src/node_modules/` to the top-level `node_modules/`
directory). Dependency hoisting causes numerous mysterious
problems such as silent failures in `npm outdated` and `npm
update`. Dependency hoisting also breaks plugins that do:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/foo')
* Run node 10 with '--experimental_worker' flags
* Use dedicated function to retrieve node/npm program version
The goal of this commit is to ensure that any linux based node 10 deployments run with the experimental_worker flag. This flag is required for workers to "work" in node 10. This will not affect other versions of node. This resolves#4335 where Docker would fail due to being based on node 10.
At the end of run, `exec` should be used to switch to the node process. That way node will take over the pid of `sh run.sh`, making it easier to monitor and daemonize the server.
```
exec [command [arg ...]]
Unless command is omitted, the shell process is replaced with the
specified program (which must be a real program, not a shell
built-in command or function). Any redirections on the exec com-
mand are marked as permanent, so that they are not undone when
the exec command finishes.
```
