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Description

This PR upgrades to node version 22.12.0 which is the latest LTS node version as of the creation of this PR.

All dependencies are also upgraded to the newest versions.

There were 2 changes to our code base, because upgrading dependencies required those changes:

• The uuid.v4 function no longer internally uses an array, but instead uses Uint8Array. This only affects tests.
• With a new eslint/typescript version a function call was detected to be unsound. See https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-unsafe-call/. The fix was to opt into that unsound function call. The linter no longer fails and the runtime code should be exactly the same as before.

This PR uses the ~ prefix for some dependency versions now:

• @eslint/js
• eslint
• eslint-plugin-jest
• eslint-plugin-prettier
• prettier
• typescript
• typescript-eslint

This is because minor versions of typescript or eslint often introduces new linter errors.
prettier is added to that list - not because it is expected to break on minor releases, but - because eslint-plugin-prettier might break with a new minor version.

Benefits

Up to date and no known security vulnerabilities.

Closes #145.
Closes #131.

Potential drawbacks

Maybe something could break.