react-native dependencies conflict react-native-image-crop-picker

Dependency Conflict with TOCropViewController in React Native Project

I'm currently facing a dependency conflict in my React Native project when trying to use both react-native-image-crop-picker and react-native-image-crop-tools. Each library depends on different versions of TOCropViewController, leading to a conflict that I'm unable to resolve.

Here's the situation:

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When I install react-native-image-crop-picker first and then run pod install in the ios directory, it succeeds. However, after adding react-native-image-crop-tools and running pod install again, I encounter the following error:

[!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "TOCropViewController":
  In snapshot (Podfile.lock):
    TOCropViewController (= 2.6.1)

  In Podfile:
    RNImageCropPicker (from `../node_modules/react-native-image-crop-picker`) was resolved to 0.40.3, which depends on
      TOCropViewController

    react-native-image-crop-tools (from `../node_modules/react-native-image-crop-tools`) was resolved to 1.6.4, which depends on
      TOCropViewController (= 2.5.3)

I understand this is a basic dependency conflict so i added pod 'TOCropViewController', '2.5.3' in Podfile. But it is not still working. How to solve this? Any advice is welcome. Thank you

Solution

If it is necessary to use those two packages, you can try manually to adjust the version TOCropViewController inside react-native-image-crop-picker, until it is working as expected or directly disable it, if it possible. Then using https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package you can apply your changes to the patch every time you install/update your node modules. Keep in mind this is a solution where the two packages are a must.