Overrides example

This is a example project for npm overrides attribute in combination with install-links flag.

Setup of the projects

Run npm install. This should automatically install in every child project.

The project child has one simple dependency "@types/semver": "^6.x".

The project_links_false has set install-links=false. The project_links_true has set install-links=true.

Both projects have the same dependencies and forces an override of our given dependency to version 7.x:

 "overrides": {
    "@types/semver": "^7.x"
   },
  "dependencies": {
    "@types/semver": "^7.x",
    "child": "../child"
  }

What is the problem:

When I run npm ls --all in my projects, I get different results:

The project_links_true with install-links=true produces the following result. Here, the overrides is respected for my child.

project_links_true@1.0.0 C:\dev\overrides_example\project_links_true
├── @types/semver@7.5.8 overridden
└─┬ child@1.0.0
  └── @types/semver@7.5.8 deduped

The project_links_false with install-links=false does not respect overrides and has a different version in its child dependencies.

project_links_false@1.0.0 C:\dev\overrides_example\project_links_false
├── @types/semver@7.5.8 overridden
└─┬ child@1.0.0 -> .\..\child
  └── @types/semver@6.2.7