How do I tell which version of Material UI to install for my react app?

Question

I have react and react-dom 15.4.2 installed on the React starter kit I'm using and I'm trying to install material-ui; however, npm is telling me for the latest version of material UI (understandably) we need a higher version of React (16.0).

Is there a way for me to directly install the version of material-ui which is compatible with the dependencies currently existing in my package.json file? (i.e. I don't know which version this will be and I was wondering if there was a quick way to do this/look it up).

Answer 1

You can check the peerDependencies of a npm package with npm view <package-name>@<package version> peerDependencies.

E.g. npm view [email protected] peerDependencies would list

{ react: '^15.4.0',
'react-dom': '^15.4.0',
'react-tap-event-plugin': '^2.0.1' }

You still would have to look up the versions from their github.

Answer 2

You can install your specific material-ui/core version.

For example:

npm i @material-ui/[email protected]
or
npm install @material-ui/[email protected]