How get different versions of package in existing project with package.json

[KelvinOm]

Description

I have existing project with package.json and React 15. I want to use Bit workspace with React 18. I tried to use variant for this but after bit install i got only 18.2.0 version in root node_modules.

Could you help me to get node_modules with react 18 in components folder?

• Bit version: 0.0.777
• Node version: 16.15.1
• Platform: MacOs

Context and additional information

Repo for reproduce https://github.com/KelvinOm/bit

[GiladShoham]

Do you want to use both react 15 and 18 in the same workspace?

[KelvinOm]

@GiladShoham Yes. I want migrate my old codebase step by step to new React with components and old app have to work on React 15 without any changes. How can I achieve this?

[itaymendel]

this is only possible when using only bit to manage dependencies. sadly package.json does not support it.