[adevx]

I never understood this npm hell reference people are speaking off. Is this just the drama of updating an outdated inherited project? I've been working with node/npm since the early days and don't consider it worse than what you find in Java, Python or PHP.

[ashishb]

The latest version of webpack removed polyfill, this broke another dependency, and i had to downgrade the react version to fix that!

Nothing like this did I ever see in the go or kotlin world.

[qmmmur]

If you depend on a specific behaviour why dont you pin your react version?

[ashishb]

I learnt that much later. Apparently the current version of webpack that you get by following the official react project setup is missing certain polyfills!

[jbreckmckye]

Couldn't you have pinned your dependency and / or installed from a lockfile?