Corepack & Gradle 9

Hey,

I just wanted to open an issue because I'm currently maintaining my own personal fork of node-gradle in order to add gradle 9 support, as well as support for corepack (#342): https://github.com/solonovamax/gradle-node-plugin/

it's not currently in a condition where I'd feel comfortable PRing it, but it was enough for my usecase.
if you wanted to pull those commits into node-gradle, I'd be more than happy to help with that.
I've based my fork on the update-node-version and update-node-version branches.

Support for corepack was actually relatively straightforward. it seems that you can basically just prefix the command with corepack, and then it Just Works™
e.g. instead of doing pnpm install, you do corepack pnpm install

the one thing that was just rather annoying was fixing the mocking for ExecOperations:
https://github.com/node-gradle/gradle-node-plugin/commit/b0a4b48a703637b5e57afc516f0556106de7059c#diff-3e86f30a7042837bd17d78bacc8469493ef25f4b0037fe2a2ddb2e841dd2ab6cL27-R33

Start by reviewing the linked fork and commit b0a4b48, especially the ExecOperations mocking changes, then compare those changes with the current node-gradle implementation. Done means node-gradle supports Corepack and Gradle 9, with the relevant mocking and behavior covered by the project’s tests.