Update dependencies

[zcernigoj]

It would be nice to update the ones that cause critical (security) issues.

For greater compatibility with newer apps, also focus on updating axios (to use AbortController instead of CancelToken).

[janybravo]

xml2js still yet needs to be refactored out of client code as it causes problems with Vite. Axios upgrade to newer versions requires more significant rework of this library. Also today we can get away with Axios altogether in favor to fetch/node-fetch and some caching lib, if that will still be needed in the future.