[Snyk] Security upgrade electron from 11.5.0 to 37.2.5

[saurabharch]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 2 vulnerabilities in the npm dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• packages/react-devtools/package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-11023267	756
	Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-11023263	716

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🦉 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

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Summary of Changes

Hello @saurabharch, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

I've opened this pull request to address critical security vulnerabilities by upgrading the Electron dependency. This change, automatically generated by Snyk, updates the Electron version in packages/react-devtools/package.json to mitigate two 'Type Confusion' vulnerabilities, ensuring the project's security posture is improved.

Highlights

• Dependency Upgrade: The "electron" dependency has been significantly upgraded from version 11.1.0 to 37.2.5.
• Security Fixes: This upgrade addresses two critical security vulnerabilities related to 'Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type' (Type Confusion) in Electron.
• Vulnerability Severity: The vulnerabilities have high severity scores of 756 (critical) and 716 (high).

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Code Review

This pull request, automatically generated by Snyk, upgrades Electron from version 11.5.0 to 37.2.5 to address security vulnerabilities. While the dependency upgrade is necessary for security, this is a very large major version jump that introduces significant breaking changes. The current implementation uses several Electron APIs (like nodeIntegration and app.on('ready')) that have been removed or changed in newer versions. This will cause the application to break. The application code needs to be updated to be compatible with Electron v37 before this PR can be merged.

[gemini-code-assist]

This is a major version upgrade from Electron v11 to v37. This large jump introduces significant breaking changes that will likely break the application.

Here are some of the breaking changes that need to be addressed in packages/react-devtools/app.js:

• nodeIntegration Removal: The nodeIntegration option in webPreferences was removed in Electron v20. app.js uses nodeIntegration: true (line 32). This will cause the application to fail. The application needs to be refactored to use a preload script to expose Node.js APIs to the renderer process securely.

• app.on('ready') Event: The ready event for app was deprecated and later removed. The code should be updated to use app.whenReady().then(...) instead of app.on('ready', ...) (line 23).

• new-window Event: The new-window event on webContents is deprecated. It should be replaced with webContents.setWindowOpenHandler() (line 44).

Given this is an automated Snyk PR, it's crucial to manually verify and update the application code to be compatible with Electron v37 before merging. The application in its current state will not run with the updated Electron version.