Let's move to node 6.9.2 and npm 3.10.9, thanks to shrinkwrap evangelizer @rochoa

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ After building the whole suite for the first time, a webpage will show up with a
 
 Then, the process will watch changes in the codebase and will regenerate the specs as needed. Just refresh the Jasmine page to pass again the tests.
 
-:warning: Node v6+ is required to run `grunt affected_specs`
-
 If you prefer to generate all specs anyway, you can pass a flag to the grunt task:
 
 ```bash
@@ -137,15 +135,13 @@ This will generate the whole Builder suite, not only the specs affected by the c
 
 If you want to run simultaneously the application and the specs generation follow these steps:
 
-1. Open a terminal with Node v0.10.48 (use nvm) and run `grunt && grunt dev`. This will build the application assets and will watch for changes.
-
-2. Open a second terminal and use nvm to set the Node version to 6+.
+1. Open a terminal with Node v6.9.2 (use nvm) and run `grunt && grunt dev`. This will build the application assets and will watch for changes.
 
-3. In this second terminal run `grunt affected_specs`.
+2. Open a second terminal and run `grunt affected_specs`.
 
-4. You will see in the first terminal that a lot of changes build the bundle again. That's normal. The first step of the point 3 is to copy all needed files, so the `watch` of `grunt dev` triggers. Don't worry about it.
+3. You will see in the first terminal that a lot of changes build the bundle again. That's normal. The first step of the point 3 is to copy all needed files, so the `watch` of `grunt dev` triggers. Don't worry about it.
 
-5. That's it. When you change any Builder Javascript file `grunt dev` will build the application bundle and `grunt affected_specs` will build the specs.
+4. That's it. When you change any Builder Javascript file `grunt dev` will build the application bundle and `grunt affected_specs` will build the specs.
 
 #### Running a particular spec
 
@@ -155,7 +151,7 @@ If you only want to run a subset of tests the easiest and fastest way is to use
 
 We use [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) to automate build tasks related to both CSS and JS.
 
-We use v0.10.x of [node](http://nodejs.org/) (we recommend to use [NVM](https://github.com/creationix/nvm)).
+We use v6.9.2 of [node](http://nodejs.org/) (we recommend to use [NVM](https://github.com/creationix/nvm)).
 
 Install dependencies using a normal npm install as such:
 ```bash

Gruntfile.js

@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@ var jasmineCfg = require('./lib/build/tasks/jasmine.js');
 var duplicatedDependencies = require('./lib/build/tasks/shrinkwrap-duplicated-dependencies.js');
 var webpackTask = null;
 
-var NODE_VERSION = '0.10.26 - 0.12';
-var NPM_VERSION = '2.14 - 2.15';
-var WEBPACK_NODE_VERSION = '6 - 7';
-var WEBPACK_NPM_VERSION = '2.14 - 3';
+var REQUIRED_NODE_VERSION = '6.9.2';
+var REQUIRED_NPM_VERSION = '3.10.9';
 
 var DEVELOPMENT = 'development';
 
@@ -88,12 +86,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
       checkVersion('npm -v', requiredNpmVersion, 'npm', logFn);
     }
 
-    if (grunt.cli.tasks.indexOf('affected_specs') > - 1) {
-      // Webpack needs a higher version of Node than the rest of the tasks.
-      preFlight(WEBPACK_NODE_VERSION, WEBPACK_NPM_VERSION, logVersionsError);
-    } else {
-      preFlight(NODE_VERSION, NPM_VERSION, logVersionsError);
-    }
+    preFlight(REQUIRED_NODE_VERSION, REQUIRED_NPM_VERSION, logVersionsError);
     grunt.log.writeln('');
 
     var duplicatedModules = duplicatedDependencies(require('./npm-shrinkwrap.json'), SHRINKWRAP_MODULES_TO_VALIDATE);

NEWS.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Development
 * An attacker could execute commands in the server running the queues by importing a file with a carefully crafted filename. Fixed in #11782
 
 ### Features
+* Using Node v6.9.2 and npm v3.10.9 (#11935).
 * Color picker for codemirror component.
 * New dropdown for Data Observatory (#11618)
 * Quota pre-check to analyses that consume quota.

package.json

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     "backbone-model-file-upload": "CartoDB/backbone-model-file-upload#1.0.0",
     "backbone-undo": "cartodb/Backbone.Undo.js#c10e997",
     "bootstrap-colorpicker": "2.4.0",
+    "browserify": "13.0.0",
     "browserify-shim": "3.8.12",
     "camshaft-reference": "<2.0",
     "carto": "cartodb/carto#master",
@@ -42,7 +43,6 @@
     "aws-sdk": "2.0.0-rc11",
     "bluebird": "3.5.0",
     "brfs": "^1.4.3",
-    "browserify": "13.0.0",
     "browserify-resolutions": "1.1.0",
     "cartoassets": "cartodb/CartoAssets#master",
     "colors": "1.1.2",
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Run 'grunt test' to run specs through command line.\"",
     "preupdate-internal-deps": "echo 'DEPRECATED TASK, use `npm run-script update-internal-deps` instead'",
-    "update-internal-deps": "rm -rf node_modules && npm install --no-shrinkwrap && npm shrinkwrap",
+    "update-internal-deps": "rm -rf node_modules && npm install --production --no-shrinkwrap && npm dedupe && npm prune && npm shrinkwrap && npm install",
     "branch-files": "node lib/build/branchFiles/branchFiles.js",
     "affected_specs": "node lib/build/branchFiles/branchFiles.js | xargs node lib/build/affectedFiles/affectedFiles.js"
   }