upgrade to nodejs 16 and packaging 24.1

[artydeez]

• Due to nodejs 14 deprecation, npm binary was no longer installed successfully during build process. Upgrading to nodejs 16 fixes this
• Started to see build failures for setuptools after upgrading to nodejs 16 but don't believe they are related

#16 1.303         File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_core_metadata.py", line 285, in _distribution_fullname
#16 1.303           canonicalize_version(version, strip_trailing_zero=False),
#16 1.303       TypeError: canonicalize_version() got an unexpected keyword argument 'strip_trailing_zero'

this is fixed up updating the packing pip to 24.1