Missing ndarray dependencies using plotly.js v2.5.0, npm v6 and react-plotly.js v1

[dmbarry86]

When reviewing our weekly Dependabot updates I came across an issue with our migration from Plotly 2.4.1 to 2.5.0. We now get the error shown below when trying to install dependencies. The issue was shown in our CI pipeline which runs npm ci.

I've attached our package files from 2.4.1 which work fine and the updated ones from 2.5.0 which break. You can run npm ci with the 2.5.0 files to reproduce.

error.zip

[archmoj]

What is your npm version?

[dmbarry86]

What is your npm version?

Locally it's 6.14.12. Our CI pipeline (GitHub Actions) would also be 6.x as we run on Node 14.x which I believe comes with 6.x npm as default.

[archmoj]

Upgrading to npm7 and node16 could help fix the warning. See #5922 and #5921 (comment).

[dmbarry86]

Do you no longer support node 14 then? Note that we get an error not a warning.

[archmoj]

node12 and node14 still worked for us with npm ci. The was a warning with npm i which upgrading to npm7 fixed it.
What is your package.json look like?

[dmbarry86]

What is your package.json look like?

I attached this above to the original report.

[archmoj]

Could you please try using ploly.js-dist instead?

[dmbarry86]

Could you please try using ploly.js-dist instead?

This appears to fix the issue. Are there any downsides to switching over to this package?

Are you able to investigate what is causing the original problem? I see some of our other dependencies make use of the original ndarray rather than the plotly forked version. Do you think this could be the cause?

[archmoj]

Could you please try using ploly.js-dist instead?

This appears to fix the issue. Are there any downsides to switching over to this package?

There shouldn't be any downside. It should also download and build faster. In addition you may try the minified package plotly.js-dist-min too.

[archmoj]

Are you able to investigate what is causing the original problem? I see some of our other dependencies make use of the original ndarray rather than the plotly forked version. Do you think this could be the cause?

Which other package require ndarray?
Could you try npm i ndarray --save ?

[dmbarry86]

FYI, switching to Node 16.x and NPM 7.x solves the error. We're not quite ready to switch to Node 16 yet in our project but we will keep in mind. For now maybe we just stay with Plotly 2.4.1 until we are ready to migrate.

[dmbarry86]

Which other package require ndarray?

Apologies, I was wrong there. I was manually inspecting the package-lock.json and thought another dependency relied on it. It appears to just be plotly dependencies.

Here's the output from npm ls ndarray in our working 2.4.1

Here's the output from npm ls ndarray in our broken 2.5.0

[archmoj]

npm uninstall plotly.js
npm install plotly.js-dist --save

Should fix the issue for you.

[dmbarry86]

If I uninstall plotly.js and then reinstall plot.js I now get a new error when running npm ci. The new error this time is "No matching version found for 3d-view@2.1.0.". This is still with npm 6.x by the way as we have shown that 7.x already works fine.

After running npm ci

After running npm install

[archmoj]

Not reinstalling plotly.js,

npm install plotly.js-dist --save

is installing ploltly.js-dist