Problems -- deprecated dependencies

[dan-willett]

The request package has been deprecated ... should probably use the fetch api instead

Need to make into an ES6 module.

after running awhile if fails to work correctly ... memory issue? not sure why without taking a fair amount to time debugging. Fails connection tokens that are valid. Restarting the app solves the issue for a while until it starts happening again.

Need to get rid of vars and replace with let, make into ES6 module, target Node 18 and later, not use any dependencies.

After playing around with the REST API using Postman, I am probably going to write my own ES6 module for token verification. This package seems to be more complex than it needs to be.