Installing shadcn/ui on React 19 with npm hits peer dependency errors from Radix packages

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:57.223Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:57.223Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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npm 7 and later treat an unmet peer range as an install failure. Several Radix and adjacent packages declared support only up to React 18 for a period after React 19 shipped, so install aborts with ERESOLVE even though the code works fine on 19.

The CLI detects npm and asks whether to proceed with --force or --legacy-peer-deps. pnpm and yarn only warn by default, which is why the problem looks npm specific.

Passing a flag fixes one install but not the next one, and not CI. A durable fix is an overrides entry in package.json pinning react and react-dom for transitive dependents, or the pnpm.overrides equivalent, so every install resolves the same way. Remove it once the upstream ranges widen.

Source: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/react-19

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