Overriding NPM dependency of a dependency in package.json not working if the dependency was already installed

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I'm getting the following error when I try to import mongoose with TypeScript ``` node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/mongodb.d.ts:3309:5 - error TS2416: Property 'end' in type 'GridFSBucketWriteStream' is not assignable to the same property in base type 'Writable'. ``` Apparently this was fixed in mongodb 4.3.0, but mongoose uses mongodb 4.2.2 How could I force mongoose to use mongodb 4.3.0+ ? I tried adding ``` "overrides": { "mongoose": { "mongodb": "^4.3.0" } }, ``` to package.json but it didn't fix the issue. Here's my package.json ``` { "name": "reports", "version": "1.0.0", "type": "module", "description": "", "main": "index.js", "engines": { "node": "16.x" }, "jest": { "setupFiles": [ "<rootDir>/jestTestEnv.js" ] }, "scripts": { "test": "jest --watchAll --setupFiles ./jestTestEnv.js", "dev": "tsc && nodemon -r dotenv/config dist/server.js" }, "keywords": [], "author": "", "license": "ISC", "dependencies": { "body-parser": "^1.19.1", "cors": "^2.8.5", "dotenv": "^10.0.0"…

Accepted Answer

Found the solution. There seems to be a bug here with NPM. Deleting both node_modules AND package-lock.json and then doing `npm install` fixes the issue. Deleting node_modules on its own doesn't fix it.

Overriding NPM dependency of a dependency in package.json not working if the dependency was already installed

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