Create-react-app: Fixed version of ESLint in the react-scripts package causing issues

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Is this a bug report?

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Steps to Reproduce

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Expected Behavior

This error should not be happening.

Actual Behavior

There is an error because of the fixed ESLint version in the react-scripts package.

Question

Why does react-scripts keeps fixed versions of packages such as eslint in the dependency manifest? Why not just specify the major version, like eslint-config-react-app does (5.x, for example)?

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/package.json#L40

Notice how eslint-config-react-app sets its ESLint version:
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/eslint-config-react-app/package.json#L17

[Delagardi]

same problem

[Goufix]

Same problem

[jbotSandbox]

I am having the same issue. And now I can't get eslint to work in VSCode (code-server). I followed the instructions where you remove node_modules, package-lock.json, yarn-lock.json and take out the reference to "eslint": "^5.16.0" out of the devDependencies of the package.json. But I left the references to eslink-plugins and eslink-config. Then I do a yarn or npm install.

Now I get the error in my output when VSCode tries to lint a file?

module.js:562
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/bitnami/testlint/-e'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:560:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:487:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:726:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:207:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:628:3

[iansu]

The maintainers discussed this issue today and we've decided to relax the ESLint version requirement. cc @ianschmitz