`ng update` not resolving the correct NPM package when using `npm:<name>` syntax as version range

[jordimarimon]

Command

update

Is this a regression?

• Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version

The previous version in which this bug was not present was

No response

Description

I searched through the issues and I did found some related issues but they weren't exactly the same:

• ng add doesn't use the proper yarn registry. #23448
• "ng update" doesn't support private repos such as FontAwesome 5 Pro #10624

Feel free to close this issue if you fill like it's a duplicate of another one.

I wanted to update my angular project to the latest version and I executed the command:

ng update @angular/cli @angular/core

In my project I have as a development dependency @types/web (TypeScript DOM declaration files) because I have private libraries that use my applications and I like to make sure that all my projects use the same version of declaration files and also I like to decouple the TypeScript compiler version from the declaration files version.

The dependecy in the package.json looks like the following:

"@typescript/lib-dom": "npm:@types/web@^0.0.99"

You can see that the package hosted in NPM registry is @types/web but the name of the dependency store in node_modules is @typescript/lib-dom.

It's this way because TypeScript will search in /node_modules/@typescript/lib-dom to know if the declaration files have been installed independently. If the folder is not present, it will use the declaration files that come with the TypeScript compiler (/node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.dom.d.ts).

When I execute the ng update command, I get the following error:

✔ Packages successfully installed.
Using package manager: npm
Collecting installed dependencies...
Found 16 dependencies.
Fetching dependency metadata from registry...
✖ Migration failed: 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@typescript%2flib-dom - Not found
  See ".../angular-errors.log" for further details.

Basically, the Angular CLI is trying to fetch @typescript/lib-dom but this is not the name of the package, the correct name to fetch is @types/web.

Minimal Reproduction

I have created the following repository that reproduces the issue.

You don't need to clone it, you can follow the steps explained in the README.md:

https://github.com/jordimarimon/angular-cli-update-issue

Exception or Error

[error] HttpErrorGeneral: 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@typescript%2flib-dom - Not found
    at /tmp/angular-cli-packages-Fv6UlW/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/lib/check-response.js:95:15
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async RegistryFetcher.packument (/tmp/angular-cli-packages-Fv6UlW/node_modules/pacote/lib/registry.js:87:19)
    at async Promise.all (index 3)
    at async /tmp/angular-cli-packages-Fv6UlW/node_modules/@angular/cli/src/commands/update/schematic/index.js:671:36
    at async callRuleAsync (/tmp/angular-cli-packages-Fv6UlW/node_modules/@angular-devkit/schematics/src/rules/call.js:77:18)

Your Environment

Angular CLI: 15.2.8
Node: 18.12.1
Package Manager: npm 9.5.1
OS: linux x64

Angular: 15.2.9
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                         Version
---------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect       0.1502.8
@angular-devkit/build-angular   15.2.8
@angular-devkit/core            15.2.8
@angular-devkit/schematics      15.2.8
@angular/cli                    15.2.8
@schematics/angular             15.2.8
rxjs                            7.8.1
typescript                      4.9.5

Anything else relevant?

No response

[BIG293]

same issue

[m96-chan]

same issue.

[CCBet]

@alan-agius4 , is this issue going to be taken care of soon?

[alan-agius4]

There is not ETA for a fix for this, however PRs are most certainly welcome.

[Christoph142]

I just hit the same issue. Furthermore, I also tried adding an explicit override for the package along the lines of
"overrides": { "@typescript/lib-dom": { "@types/web" : "^0.0.99" } }
(different package for me). No luck either.