Bump node version from 16 to 18

[leotm]

Summary

Node 18: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v18-release-announce/

Node 16 EOL: 2023-09-11
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/nodejs16-eol/

Node 18 EOL: 2025-04-30

Follow-up

• Added files for node version in reactive native project #34171
• [CI] bump Node references from 12/14 to 14/16 #32980

Ref

• Bump node version react-native-community/docker-android#187

cc @ramonmedel@cortinico@gengjiawen@kelset 🙌

Changelog

[JavaScript] [Changed] - Bump node version from 16 to 18

Test Plan

Everything builds and runs as expected

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Follow-up

Update docs
https://reactnative.dev/contributing/changelogs-in-pull-requests

To reflect
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/55b09da62a50ee4ef03b53002266e2cc5e8db1c2/packages/react-native-bots/dangerfile.js#L62

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
android	hermes	arm64-v8a	7,102,569	+0
android	hermes	armeabi-v7a	6,470,637	+0
android	hermes	x86	7,520,037	+0
android	hermes	x86_64	7,378,724	+0
android	jsc	arm64-v8a	8,967,444	+0
android	jsc	armeabi-v7a	7,698,293	+0
android	jsc	x86	9,029,584	+0
android	jsc	x86_64	9,507,429	+0

Base commit: e11cfe9
Branch: main

[leotm]

likely follow-up w related non-deprecated changes: #32980

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/c5a8425fada10b715f356731426db666975569c9/.circleci/config.yml#L42

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/c5a8425fada10b715f356731426db666975569c9/.circleci/config.yml#L565

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
ios	-	universal	n/a	--

Base commit: e11cfe9
Branch: main

[pull-bot]

PR build artifact for d4ecaee is ready.
To use, download tarball from "Artifacts" tab in this CircleCI job then run yarn add <path to tarball> in your React Native project.

[cortinico]

I think we can do that, but you'll have to also update the Node version on CircleCI and make sure that everythign is green:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/.circleci/config.yml#L42-L43

Prev-LTS should be 16, and current should be 18.

[cortinico]

(see my previous comment)

[pull-bot]

PR build artifact for e26ef04 is ready.
To use, download tarball from "Artifacts" tab in this CircleCI job then run yarn add <path to tarball> in your React Native project.

[kelset]

can you fix the changelog entry? [Javascript] is not a valid argument?

[leotm]

looks valid/appropriate no? so it's passing

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/55b09da62a50ee4ef03b53002266e2cc5e8db1c2/packages/react-native-bots/dangerfile.js#L62

if js/javascript been deprecated, happy to create another PR to remove both opts and update to [General]

[facebook-github-bot]

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[kelset]

looks valid/appropriate no? so it's passing

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/55b09da62a50ee4ef03b53002266e2cc5e8db1c2/packages/react-native-bots/dangerfile.js#L62

if js/javascript been deprecated, happy to create another PR to remove both opts and update to [General]

oh wow then the docs are outdated 😅 https://reactnative.dev/contributing/changelogs-in-pull-requests <- that one will need to be fixed; thanks for spotting!

[react-native-bot]

This pull request was successfully merged by @leotm in f75b92a.

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