UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY jquery@>=3.0.0 & popper.js@^1.11.0

Question

While installing Bootstrap 4 (the latest beta version) with NPM : `npm install [email protected], I got this message :

+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY jquery@>=3.0.0
`-- UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY popper.js@^1.11.0

npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of jquery@>=3.0.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of popper.js@^1.11.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

To remove this warning : npm i --save jquery popper.js

But, why the first command didn't install Bootstrap 4, Jquery and Popper.js in one time? normally NPM should install dependencies !!

Any explaination please?

Thank you

Answer 1

The problem was reported to the Bootstrap development team in this issue. In principle, Bootstrap 4 can be used without jQuery and Popper, but these two optional packages are considered as peer dependencies in the [email protected] version installed with npm.

According to the comments made by the Bootstrap developers in the discussion, they are going to offer two different Bootstrap packages:

• bootstrap-css: which will not have any dependency on jQuery and Popper
• bootstrap: which, I assume, will install the required dependencies

Answer 2

All depend of the configuration of the package.json from the npm package. if you check the respository for bootstrap here, you can see this:

...
"dependencies": {},
"peerDependencies": {
 "jquery": "^3.0.0",
 "popper.js": "^1.12.3"
},
...

When you install a npm package, just the dependencies specified in package.json file as dependencies would be download with the package.

If you want to know more about peerDependecies this is the link: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#peerdependencies