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Question: React dependency not a peer dependency?

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Hello!

My team is considering using this library. One thing that we were wondering about is why React and React-DOM is only listed in package.json as a devDependency and not as a peerDependency also?

One thing that we’re trying to determine is what versions of React would work with this library. For example, we have a situation where we need to use an older version of React (15.x). Since React is not listed as a peer dependency in this library’s package.json, we are not able to determine if something in this library would break with an older version of React.

Thanks for your help!

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Created 5 years ago
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moog16commented, Jan 16, 2019

@jasonkylefrank correct it should be at minimum v16.x.x. Thanks for raising this as I need to fix how deps are handled in all these packages.

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jasonkylefrankcommented, Jan 16, 2019

Hi @moog16! Just to clarify, you’re saying that the peerDependencies should be the same as what is listed in the devDependencies? That is:

"react": "^16.4.2",
"react-dom": "^16.4.2"

Regarding whether or not the compiled version would work in a React 15.x codebase, I do not have any insight. 😀

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