Why does it not let me install this?

[SupertigerDev]

Why cant I install this dependency? I get this error.

PS D:\Fishie\Desktop\chat\chat-client> npm i react-router-dom
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE could not resolve
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]
npm ERR! Found: [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   peer react@"^16.8.0 || ^17" from [email protected]
npm ERR!   node_modules/mobx-react-lite
npm ERR!     mobx-react-lite@"^3.3.0" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! react-router-dom@"*" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Conflicting peer dependency: [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   peer react@"^18.0.0" from [email protected]
npm ERR!   node_modules/react-dom
npm ERR!     peer react-dom@">=16.8" from [email protected]
npm ERR!     node_modules/react-router-dom
npm ERR!       react-router-dom@"*" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! See C:\Users\Fishie\AppData\Local\npm-cache\eresolve-report.txt for a full report.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Fishie\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-04-20T19_04_04_559Z-debug-0.log
PS D:\Fishie\Desktop\chat\chat-client>

[timdorr]

Your dependency on mobx-react-lite is causing the issue. It only supports React 16.8+ to 17.x. It appears you've got React 18 installed, which contradicts the mobx-react-lite requirement and that's causing a version restriction that then conflicts when you try to install something that supports React 18.

You likely have multiple versions of react in your tree, which you can find with npm ls react.

[SupertigerDev]

This is what I see. I'm using preact. Would downgrading my preact version fix this error?
Edit: I dont think downgrading preact would be the best option. I think I need to serach for mobx-react-lite alternative 🙁
Edit2: I think I will just move from preact to react and downgrate to react 17 for now :( I will mark this as resolved as this isn't a problem with this package. Thanks!

➜ chat-client git:(main) ✗ npm ls react
[email protected] D:\Desktop\chat\chat-client
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➜ chat-client git:(main)