I can't install react-chat-engine with npm

Question

I couldn't install

npm install react-chat-engine

PS C:\Users\Edgar\Downloads\project_react\aplicacion> npm install react-chat-engine
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]
npm ERR! Found: [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   react@"^17.0.1" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer react@"^16.0.0" from [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/react-chat-engine
npm ERR!   react-chat-engine@"*" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! See C:\Users\Edgar\AppData\Local\npm-cache\eresolve-report.txt for a full report.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Edgar\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-02-08T04_05_17_318Z-debug.log

so i tried

npm install react-chat-engine --force

and it worked I know it's simple and stupid but maybe someone will use it lol

Answer 1

Try to run this command

npm i react-chat-engine  --legacy-peer-deps

or you can run this command

npm i react-chat-engine  --force

it worked for me.