[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Resolve problem with js-cookie 3.x and node engines (#3275)

[Andy Allan]

> We're not going to start installing node from upstream just for this!

Perhaps not. But I think we'll need to address the issue of Node versions at some point this year. Ubuntu are, slightly bafflingly, about to release 22.04 with Node 12, which is EOL at the end of this month(!). Ignoring Node 14, Node 16 has also been available for over a year, and is the only current LTS version that will still be supported, just, when 24.04 is released.

So I think when we upgrade our Ubuntu requirements to 22.04, we'll need to recommend installing Node (probably 16, maybe 18) from an external source, since Node 12 will be already put out to pasture by that point. I use the [NodeSource](https://github.com/nodesource/distributions) APT repo elsewhere, and it works well.

I really wish Ubuntu were a bit less daft with their Node versioning policy.

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