Why mongoose pins Mongodb to 4.5.0 instead of allowing upgrades?

[huksley]

i.e. package.json contains

"mongodb": "4.5.0",

As a result, installing the latest MongoDB driver creates [email protected] as a private package inside mongoose/node_modules
which results in type problems with user code and Mongoose?

Is there anything wrong with MongoDB 4.6.0 driver?

[Uzlopak]

There is nothing wrong with MongoDB 4.6.0 driver

Please read:
#11494 (reply in thread)

[huksley]

Hmm, when I install [email protected] i will have 2 packages of MongoDB in node_modules. Could package.json say "mongodb": "^4.5.0",

I am not sure how I can override this via npm/package.json

[Uzlopak]

We pin the versions in mongoose to avoid issues, when mongodb gets some kind of regression/breaking change.

Why do you even need mongodb as a dependency in your project, when you already use mongoose?

Anyway:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48524488

[huksley]

I use Mongoose for my code and I also use MongoDB as an adapter in Next Auth

Thanks for link, I probably need to upgrade to npm-cli v.8