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Could react be a peer dependency rather than a dependency?

See original GitHub issue

At the moment molstar has a dependency of "react": "^17.0.1", which means that it can only be used in react apps that use react 17.x.x - you cannot have different versions of react in the same react app, and installing molstar will install a second version of react if the existing react doesn’t match ^17.0.1.

Could react be made a peer dependency instead? This is the preferred way to specify that a plugin requires react. I’m happy to make a pull request to this effect, I just wanted to make sure it wouldn’t break anything or that I hadn’t misunderstood something about how react was being used.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:19 (15 by maintainers)

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dsehnalcommented, Dec 14, 2021

3.0.0-dev.4 and newer now have React as peer dep.

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russellp17commented, Feb 21, 2022

So it looks like 16.14.0 has support for react-jsx but not earlier React 16.* versions: https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/09/22/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform.html#how-to-upgrade-to-the-new-jsx-transform

Just put up a PR to permit React 16 as a peer dependency

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