@clerk/backend wrong peer deps

[y-nk]

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Reproduction

pnpm i @clerk/express
.
└─┬ @clerk/express 1.3.34
  ├── ✕ missing peer express@"^4.17.0 || ^5.0.0"
  ├─┬ @clerk/shared 2.20.6
  │ ├── ✕ missing peer react@"^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0 || ^19.0.0-0"
  │ └─┬ swr 2.3.0
  │   ├── ✕ missing peer react@"^16.11.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0"
  │   └─┬ use-sync-external-store 1.4.0
  │     └── ✕ missing peer react@"^16.8.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0"
  └─┬ @clerk/backend 1.22.0
    └── ✕ missing peer react@"^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0 || ^19.0.0-0"

Publishable key

pk_test_123456789

Description

Package is intended to use in node environments, tho there's react as peer dependency which mess up with pnpm install when auto-install of peer deps is enabled (for good reason)

Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 15.1.1
    CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M2
    Memory: X MB / 16.00 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 23.2.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.22 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.9.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
    pnpm: 9.11.0 - ~/Library/pnpm/.tools/pnpm/9.11.0/bin/pnpm
  npmPackages:
    @clerk/express: ^1.3.34 => 1.3.34
    @y_nk/nestjs-clerk: ^1.0.0 => 1.0.0
    typescript: ^5.7.3 => 5.7.3

[LekoArts]

Hi, thanks for the issue!

I tried to reproduce your steps but didn't see the issue:

➜ pnpm init
Wrote to /Users/lejoe/code/playground/issue-4897/package.json

{
  "name": "issue-4897",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

playground/issue-4897 is 📦 1.0.0 via ⬢ v20.11.1
➜ pnpm i @clerk/express
Packages: +90
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Progress: resolved 90, reused 85, downloaded 5, added 90, done
node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@clerk/shared: Running postinstall script, done in 37ms

dependencies:
+ @clerk/express 1.3.34

Done in 3.3s

I use pnpm 9.15.4. Anyhow, the package in question correctly sets these peer dependencies as optional:

javascript/packages/shared/package.json

Lines 154 to 161 in 3a03836

	"peerDependenciesMeta": {
	"react": {
	"optional": true
	},
	"react-dom": {
	"optional": true
	}
	},

So if you continue to run into this issue I'd recommend opening an issue with pnpm, one possible related issue I found is pnpm/pnpm#8142

[y-nk]

@LekoArts thanks a lot. i'm gonna look at my version of pnpm.