[Task] Figure out what is wrong with NAJ + Wallet Selector #1429

[gagdiez]

Background

The community keeps complaining about problems with naj + wallet selector. We need to figure out:

• Are the latest versions of NAJ + Wallet Selector compatible?
• Are they compatible with all currently maintained versions of node.js?
• Are they easy to add to next.js and vite templates?

Does near-js/client solve any of the above problems? (if any)

User Story

As a user, I want to be able to easily use both near-api-js and wallet-selector in my frontend projects

Acceptance Criteria

• We update our canonical examples to the latests versions of naj and wallet-selector, and they work
• We test compatibility with all currently maintained versions of node.js

Resources & Additional Notes

• Maintained versions of node.js

Priority

🟠 P1 : High

[denbite]

@gagdiez

• The most recent versions of near-api-js and wallet-selector work well together. I faced problems only after reverting the wallet-selector dependencies to version 8.9.8 or earlier since they rely on near-api-js version ^2.0.0, which is not commonly used in projects. Additionally, I haven't found any recent complaints in the Near Dev chat, which convinces me even more that problems with waller-selector are in the past.
• Tested on 18.20.5, 20.17.0 and 22.12.0 versions of Node.js, no problems found
• npx create-near-app template installs the latest versions of wallet-selector dependencies, works well
• As for @near-js/client, it does a good job of putting many components together for interacting with RPCs, but since naj + wallet-selector works well at the moment, I don't see much sense in refactoring every wallet implementation for using lighter @near-js/client instead of near-api-js