Replace deprecated uglify-es dependency

[TimJentzsch]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

"bug", deprecation

What is the current behavior?

During installation, I get the following warning:

npm WARN deprecated uglify-es@3.3.9: support for ECMAScript is superseded by `uglify-js` as of v3.13.0

This is a dependency of metro-minify-uglify:

metro/packages/metro-minify-uglify/package.json

Line 16 in a3c5b26

"uglify-es": "^3.1.9"

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and a minimal repository on GitHub that we can yarn install and yarn test.

Run npm ci on a project using metro with metro-minify-uglify.

What is the expected behavior?

metro does not use any deprecated dependencies.

Please provide your exact Metro configuration and mention your Metro, node, yarn/npm version and operating system.

• metro@0.73.9
• node@18.15.0
• npm@9.6.4

[robhogan]

metro-minify-uglify is still installed but not actually used in the default config - metro-minify-terser is now the default.

We kept it in Metro’s dependencies to ease upgrades for anyone who still needed to use it, but it’ll be removed in the next release and folks will need to install it manually from then.

[robhogan]

Closed by #1013

[ahmadsyed]

Still getting this npx react-native init .

[robhogan]

That's expected for now - metro-minify-uglify was removed as part of Metro 0.77+ (RN 0.73+, or recent nightlies). The warning is safe to ignore.

[drgnmsr]

If "the warning is safe to ignore", then why is npx react-native init not installing react-native?

[ElSguidge]

Issue seemed to occur for me when trying to install React-Native 0.72.0. Try @latest