How to downgrade all NPM packages to compatible versions after upgrading all dependencies?

[martin-braun]

Disclaimer: I also asked this question on the forum, because I don't know where I should rather ask the question.

I'm looking for a way to upgrade all NPM packages in one command, incl. major versions and updating the package.json. This should also upgrade expo using the CLI, but it should make sure that my packages stay compatible.

Simply running expo-cli upgrade is not sufficient, because I might have other NPM packages that won't be upgraded in this step.

I installed npm-check-updates to forcefully upgrade all packages (incl. expo-cli) and update the contents of the package.json simultaneously. Then I try to upgrade expo in the hope that it downgrades all packages that are too high, again, but it does not.

package.json

{
  ...
  "scripts": {
    ...
    "upgrade": "npm-check-updates -u && expo-cli upgrade && shx rm package-lock.json && expo install"
  }
  ...
}

Running npm run upgrade causes:

...
npm ERR! While resolving: react-native@0.69.4
npm ERR! Found: react@18.2.0
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   react@"18.2.0" from the root project
npm ERR!   peer react@"^18.2.0" from react-dom@18.2.0
...

This is, because npm-check-updates -u will upgrade reactto 18.2.0, although the current expo SDK supports on 18.0.0.

According to @brentvatne (ref) and @bsgbryan (ref) expo-cli upgrade (formerly expo upgrade) should indeed downgrade my packages and it should update the contents of the package.json in that process, right?

I know, that my script will most likely cause issues in my code. The command is not designed to run any now and then, but only to port the app to the most recent dependencies possible.

Here is my full package.json:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "main": "node_modules/expo/AppEntry.js",
  "scripts": {
    "pre": "shx cp -n .env.example .env",
    "start": "npm run pre && expo start && npm run post",
    "android": "npm run pre && expo start --android && npm run post",
    "ios": "npm run pre && expo start --ios && npm run post",
    "web": "npm run pre && cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider expo start --web && npm run post",
    "post": "",
    "upgrade": "npm-check-updates -u && expo-cli upgrade && shx rm package-lock.json && expo install"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@expo/webpack-config": "^0.17.0",
    "expo": "~46.0.8",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.4.0",
    "react": "18.0.0",
    "react-dom": "18.0.0",
    "react-native": "0.69.4",
    "react-native-dotenv": "^3.3.1",
    "react-native-web": "~0.18.7"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.12.9",
    "cross-env": "^7.0.3",
    "expo-cli": "^6.0.5",
    "npm-check-updates": "^16.0.5",
    "shx": "^0.3.4"
  },
  "private": true
}