How to override npm peerinvalid

Question

I'm attempting to install a node module that has specified a peerDependencies to an older version of a package. I know that module will work with the newer version. How can I tell npm to ignore the peerinvalid error? Currently the peerinvalid error is stoping the installation process.

This is the error:

npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants [email protected]

Thanks!

Answer 1

A really hacky/temporary workaround is to modify the package.json of the installed packages with the peerDependency specified, deleting the lines that specify react as a peerDependency.

This hack will go away if you (or a colleague) need to npm install your package's requirements from scratch. Like I said, a crappy temporary workaround.