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fix: correctly forward dependency on @react-native-community/cli-server-api#49325

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fix: correctly forward dependency on `@react-native-community/cli-ser…
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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json
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"peerDependencies": {
"@react-native-community/cli-server-api": "*"
},
"peerDependenciesMeta": {
"@react-native-community/cli-server-api": {
"optional": true
}
},
"engines": {
"node": ">=18"
}
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions packages/react-native/package.json
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"featureflags": "node ./scripts/featureflags/index.js"
},
"peerDependencies": {
"@react-native-community/cli-server-api": "*",

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mentioned that this will force cli-server-api to be installed (or at least result in a warning) also for expo users.

Can't we add this as direct dependency inside the template instead?

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We still need it here for it to be hoisted correctly. But we can make it optional and make it a direct dependency in the template.

Edit: I meant to submit a PR to the template but got distracted. Will try to get to it later tonight.

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We still need it here for it to be hoisted correctly

Why do we need it here specifically?

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Basically, we declare that @react-native/community-cli-plugin depends on cli-server-api but that consumers need to satisfy this requirement. The only consumer of @react-native/community-cli-plugin is react-native, but you don't want react-native to depend on CLI any longer. So react-native needs to "forward" the dependency to its consumers, hence redeclare peer dependency. Without this, package managers won't correctly link the package.

However, since react-native has cli-server-api as peer dependency, it's probably fine to mark it as optional and add it in the template as a direct dependency to satisfy the requirement.

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react-native-community/template#105

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but you don't want react-native to depend on CLI any longer.

I think there is some cleanup to make sure react-native doesn't need to depend on @react-native/community-cli-plugin at all so this change wont' be required at all

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I think there is some cleanup to make sure react-native doesn't need to depend on @react-native/community-cli-plugin at all so this change wont' be required at all

Yes, that would be the proper solution in the long run.

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For the time being, can't we just have:

  1. Remove the peerDependency here between react-native and @react-native-community/cli-server-api (so amend this line)
  2. Add the dependency on the template as per fix: @react-native/community-cli-plugin depends on @react-native-community/cli-server-api react-native-community/template#105

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I've replied to this offline but I'll post it here as well for transparency: The short answer is, if you do it this way, package managers won't put @react-native-community/cli-server-api in a place where @react-native/community-cli-plugin will be able to find it.

Longer answer: See #49325 (comment)

"@types/react": "^19.0.0",
"react": "^19.0.0"
},
"peerDependenciesMeta": {
"@react-native-community/cli-server-api": {
"optional": true
},
"@types/react": {
"optional": true
}
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