From b5eac57470d8210efdb5df75bb56224e8b82cfe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George <Shaptic@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:16:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make Node 16 the minimum version. (#847)

* Bump babel compilation target
---
 .github/workflows/gh_pages.yaml   | 4 ++--
 .github/workflows/npm_publish.yml | 2 +-
 .github/workflows/tests.yml       | 2 +-
 README.md                         | 6 +++---
 babel.config.json                 | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/gh_pages.yaml b/.github/workflows/gh_pages.yaml
index 6d0280e04..6179b1d0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gh_pages.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gh_pages.yaml
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ jobs:
           repository: stellar/js-stellar-base
           path: js-stellar-base
 
-      - name: Install Node (14.x)
+      - name: Install Node (16.x)
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '14.x'
+          node-version: 16
 
       - name: Install Dependencies
         run: yarn install
diff --git a/.github/workflows/npm_publish.yml b/.github/workflows/npm_publish.yml
index 8c808d87d..0a72ea4d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/npm_publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/npm_publish.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
-          node-version: '14.x'
+          node-version: 16
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
 
       - name: Install Depencencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 3d33badb7..514f4173f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        node-version: [14, 16, 18]
+        node-version: [16, 18, 20]
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 467d71da7..7e638618e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -134,16 +134,16 @@ cd js-stellar-sdk
 npm install
 ```
 
-3. Install Node 14
+3. Install Node 16
 
-Because we support the oldest maintenance version of Node, please install and develop on Node 14 so you don't get surprised when your code works locally but breaks in CI.
+Because we support the oldest maintenance version of Node, please install and develop on Node 16 so you don't get surprised when your code works locally but breaks in CI.
 
 Here's how to install `nvm` if you haven't: https://github.com/creationix/nvm
 
 ```shell
 nvm install
 
-# if you've never installed 14 before you'll want to re-install yarn
+# if you've never installed 16 before you'll want to re-install yarn
 npm install -g yarn
 ```
 
diff --git a/babel.config.json b/babel.config.json
index be37815c0..ddf498d1b 100644
--- a/babel.config.json
+++ b/babel.config.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         "production": {
             "comments": false,
             "targets": {
-                "node": 14,
+                "node": 16,
                 "browsers": [
                     "> 2%",
                     "ie 11",