Upgrade project + dependencies to more recent versions

[QuantumManiac]

Given that this project currently runs on something around nodeJS v8 (with the dependencies being similarly as outdated) along with difficultes in getting the project to build (e.g. when working through #38), it is probably worth at least looking into bumping the project's NodeJS version and npm dependencies to something more recent.

This will undoubtedly lead to lots of breaking changes due to dependencies possibly getting bumped by several major versions, but it will allow further development to the project, if we ever want to do it, to be a lot easier.

[QuantumManiac]

@odensc Thoughts? I would be interested in giving this a shot but I wanted to double-check with you first since you might be working on this yourself already.

[odensc]

@QuantumManiac That'd be great if you want to give it a shot! I haven't started on anything yet. Definitely open to the contribution.