I’m working on a React project and I wanted to install react testing library using the command npm install --save-dev @testing-library/react. But unfortunately, I’m getting the following error. 
Here is my package.json file :
{
"description": "Sample Shopping Cart to Explore using RTK",
"version": "0.2.0",
"scripts": {
"dev": "vite",
"build": "tsc && vite build",
"serve": "vite preview"
},
"dependencies": {
"@reduxjs/toolkit": "^1.6.0",
"classnames": "^2.3.1",
"peers": "^0.1.0",
"react": "^17.0.0",
"react-dom": "^17.0.0",
"react-redux": "^7.2.4",
"react-router-dom": "^5.2.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@types/react": "^17.0.0",
"@types/react-dom": "^17.0.0",
"@types/react-router-dom": "^5.1.7",
"@vitejs/plugin-react-refresh": "^1.3.1",
"jest": "^29.4.2",
"typescript": "^4.1.2",
"vite": "^2.3.5"
}
}
My node version is v18.14.0. Can someone help me in this issue?. Thanks in advance!
>Solution :
It looks like @testing-library/react found React 17 installed but prefers React 18. You can either upgrade to 18, which is not possible for some at the moment.
In that case, try simply using @testing-library/react@12.
They dropped support for React 17 in their v13.0.0 release and announced a breaking change:
https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library/releases/tag/v13.0.0
The downside to using @testing-library/react@12 is you will need to reference old documentation because you won’t have the benefit of v13+ releases.
Hope this helps!