Cannot use with React Native / Typescript

[esamattis]

The apollo module brings in the @types/node module as a transitive dependency which is an issue with React Native typings (@types/react-native) because they have conflicting type definitions:

Cannot redeclare block-scoped variable 'console'.
Duplicate identifier 'require'.

DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#16825

I know this is issue is with @types/react-native and/or @types/node but that's a long standing issue with no solution in sight so I'm wondering if it would be possible to get rid of the dependency from apollo's side.

The dependencies which brings it in are as follows:

myapp@0.0.1
└─┬ apollo@1.9.1
  ├─┬ @types/globby@8.0.0
  │ └─┬ @types/glob@5.0.35
  │   └── @types/node@10.9.4  deduped
  ├─┬ @types/react-dom@16.0.7
  │ └── @types/node@10.9.4
  ├─┬ @types/rimraf@2.0.2
  │ └── @types/node@10.9.4  deduped
  └─┬ apollo-engine-reporting@0.0.2
    └─┬ apollo-engine-reporting-protobuf@0.0.1
      └─┬ protobufjs@6.8.8
        └── @types/node@10.9.4  deduped

[danilobuerger]

There are actually a couple of "solutions" and it is possible to use with react-native and typescript (I am doing so). The best "solution" to date is: DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#15960 (comment)

[alloy]

imo the best solution is for runtime dependencies to never depend on @types/* packages. These are dev only packages and using the right ones should be left to the dev.

[danilobuerger]

@alloy they are dev dependencies: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-cli/blob/master/package.json#L46

[alloy]

How can that be then? Dev dependencies don’t get pulled in when adding a runtime dependency to your package, no? From @epeli’s illustration it does look like the apollo package is pulling all of these into their project.

[danilobuerger]

My guess would be some weird lerna stuff.

[esamattis]

Here's the package.json from my project's node_modules/apollo/package.json:

https://gist.github.com/epeli/907fa4eaefa0f63d7f418e8506d7f625

It does seem to have some extra deps on it?

I'm using yarn 1.7.0 if it matters.