Today I learned that npm can handle merge conflicts in your package-lock.json file for you. After you resolve any merge conflicts in your package.json, you can just run npm install [--package-lock-only] and npm will resolve the conflicts in the lock file. If --package-lock-only is provided, it will do this without also modifying your local node_modules/. Solving conflicts in package-lock.json
Today I learned that node natively supports import path aliases with the imports field in package.json. The nice thing about this is that they’re supported by most node tools now so you don’t need to configure your aliases separately in different tools like eslint, webpack, vite, etc… If you’re not familiar with import aliases, they’re a handy way to avoid unwieldy relative import paths. instead of: import utils from '../../../../shared/utils'; you can have:...
Today I learned that as of npm cli v8.3.0 (2021-12-09), you can use the overrides field in package.json to “override” nested dependency versions. This is handy for several scenarios, but for me I used for a third-party react component that has a peerDependency on v16 of react even though it works just fine with v18 but it isn’t under active development at the moment so I had to override the version it accepts:...