npm dependency issue with datatables.net-responsive and datatables.net-select

bturgeon

In trying to run npm install today, we encountered some errors. It seems the dependencies specified in package.json on datatables.net-responsive (version 2.5.0) and datatables.net-select (version 1.7.0) is "datatables.net": ">=1.13.4" and is therefore now pulling in datatables.net 2.0 which is incompatible.

allan

Thank you for flagging this up and apologies for the errors. I'll need to do a patch release of the older versions of these plugins to tighten up their dependency versions. Unfortunately, that isn't as simple as npm publish since I need to account for the CDN, Nuget and all of that, but I think that is an important point to fix.

Until I can do that, specify a specific version of DataTables - 1.13.10 is the latest in the 1.x series:

npm install datatables.net@1.13.10

Allan

allan

Out of interest, can you show me the DataTables dependencies of your package.json file? Have you specified a specific version of Select or Responsive, but not DataTables? I'm wondering why DataTables would have updated, but not the other components.

Allan

bturgeon

Hi Allan,

The dependencies in our package.json are:

"datatables.net": "1.13.4",
    "datatables.net-bs4": "1.12.1",
    "datatables.net-buttons-bs4": "1.7.1",
    "datatables.net-colreorder": "1.5.6",
    "datatables.net-responsive-bs4": "2.3.0",
    "datatables.net-rowreorder-bs4": "1.2.8",
    "datatables.net-select-bs4": "1.4.0"

"datatables.net-select-bs4" was causing "datatables.net-select" v1.7.0 to get included, and within that package in node_modules was it's own node_modules folder containing datatables v.2.0 since it's dependencies listed
"datatables.net": ">=1.13.4"

In case anyone else encounters this, we were able to fix the build in our set up with the following in package.json

"overrides": {
    "datatables.net-responsive-bs4": {
      "datatables.net-responsive": "^2.2.9"
    },
    "datatables.net-responsive": {
      "datatables.net": "^1.13.4"
    },
    "datatables.net-select-bs4": {
      "datatables.net-select": "^1.3.3"
    },
    "datatables.net-select": {
      "datatables.net": "^1.13.4"
    }
  },

allan

Ah! You aren't doing a flat node_modules structure. Thank you for the clarification and also for posting the workaround! Hopefully there won't be many hit by this error. I know now how to tighten up my dependency versions. Apologies again!

Allan

bturgeon

All good. Thanks for the quick response!