Help needed updating this project to install correctly with nodejs 22 and later

I've been working to update my installs of this excellent project and I have it installing on Raspberry Pi OS trixie (the latest version) and nodejs v20, but the install process fails for nodejs v22 and v24.

I'm a bit out of my depth here as this is the only project I use that uses nodejs, npm and pm2.

Any help in advancing compatibility to nodejs version >20 would be welcome.

When using nodejs and trixie, I had to do the following to get the NFC reader recognised by the system:

Create a file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/60-pcscd.rules with this content:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (action.id == "org.debian.pcsc-lite.access_pcsc" &&
        subject.isInGroup("plugdev")) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

then, create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-acr122.rules with this content:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="072f", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2200", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"

to activate the udev rule, execute the following:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

Currently, the reader only works if the project is ran with sudo, so I have a permissions issue somewhere, but I'm struggling to fix that too...

I've managed to get the project installed with Raspberry Pi OS Trixie and Nodejs 22 by deleting the package-lock.json file and updating package.json to:

{
  "name": "sonos-nfc",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Use NFC tags to control Sonos - a node app inspired by and compatible with hankhank10/vinylemulator, with better NFC reader compatibility",
  "main": "sonos_nfc.js",
  "type": "module",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=16.0.0",
    "npm": ">=7.0.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "jest",
    "start-all": "concurrently --kill-others \"npm start\" \"npm explore sonos-http-api -- npm start\"",
    "start": "node index.js",
    "prepare": "husky install",
    "format": "prettier --write . && git add -A ."
  },
  "author": "Ryan Olf",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "concurrently": "^9.2.1",
    "nfc-pcsc": "^0.8.1",
    "nfccard-tool": "^0.1.1",
    "node-fetch": "^3.3.2",
    "sonos-http-api": "jishi/node-sonos-http-api"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.25.2",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.25.4",
    "babel-jest": "^29.7.0",
    "babel-plugin-transform-amd-to-commonjs": "^1.6.0",
    "husky": "^9.1.7",
    "jest": "^29.7.0",
    "jest-fetch-mock": "^3.0.3",
    "prettier": "^3.3.3"
  }
}

However, the requirement to run the project as sudo seems to be caused by the ACR122U reader not being compatible with 64-bit Trixie and isn't easily fixable.

I'm purchasing a newer generation card reader and will see if this works better with 64-bit Trixie...

There seems to be a quirk in Trixie that results in the requirement to run this app with elevated permissions which I can't resolve. I've submitted a pull request #21 for your review, if you'd rather not merge it I understand

Thanks so much for looking into this. I will take a look!

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