Include minimum node.js version in readme #534

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Originally created by @halter73 on 8/2/2017

I published the React + Redux template project to Debian 8.9, and got a "ReferenceError: Promise is not defined" when I made the first request. This was because the default Debian wheezy package sources only include an ancient version of node.js (0.10.29). Upgrading to node.js 8.2.1 using the instructions here resolved my issue, but it would be nice to note somewhere what the minimum supported node.js version is. I'm guessing that upgrading to node.js 6.x would have been sufficient.

I'm not suggesting we go back to node.js 0.12 (the version that I think introduced promises) and see if it works. But documenting the minimum version that we actually test against could be useful.

*Originally created by @halter73 on 8/2/2017* I published the React + Redux template project to Debian 8.9, and got a "ReferenceError: Promise is not defined" when I made the first request. This was because the default Debian wheezy package sources only include an ancient version of node.js (0.10.29). Upgrading to node.js 8.2.1 using the instructions [here](https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#installation-instructions) resolved my issue, but it would be nice to note somewhere what the minimum supported node.js version is. I'm guessing that upgrading to node.js 6.x would have been sufficient. I'm not suggesting we go back to node.js 0.12 (the version that I think introduced promises) and see if it works. But documenting the minimum version that we actually test against could be useful.
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