react-redux installs @types/react@18

[furkanalptokac]

What version of React, ReactDOM/React Native, Redux, and React Redux are you using?

• React: 17.0.2
• ReactDOM/React Native: 17.0.2
• Redux: -
• React Redux: 7.2.6

What is the current behavior?

react-redux 7.2.6 installs @types/react@18

What is the expected behavior?

I expect that react-redux doesn't install @types/react@18. When @types/react@18 installed, our components' types goes crazy.

Which browser and OS are affected by this issue?

Ubuntu 20.4

Did this work in previous versions of React Redux?

• Yes

[markerikson]

This isn't actually an issue with React-Redux itself as far as I know.

Up through v7, the React-Redux types have been maintained by the community in DefinitelyTyped, in the @types/react-redux package.

React-Redux v7.x has a hard dependency on @types/react-redux@^7, in order to ensure that our TS users automatically get the types.

However, DefinitelyTyped apparently automatically adds a dependency like "@types/react": "*" to any package that imports from @types/react. So, the real issue here is how DT constructs its packages.

One option here is to specifically tell your package manager what version of @types/react to resolve to, and enforce that across your project:

facebook/react#24304 (comment)

The other is to upgrade to React-Redux v8, which is currently in RC and will be released live in the next few days. It's already written in TS, so we don't have a dependency on @types/react-redux any more, and it should work with whatever version of @types/react is already installed

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/releases