Setting :preserveSemverRanges or rangeStrategy together with config:js-app or config:js-lib has no effect and is not user-friendly.

[ishowta]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

Problem

config:js-app and config:js-lib set :pinAllExceptPeerDependencies and :pinOnlyDevDependencies respectively, both of which use packageRules - matchPackagePatterns.
https://docs.renovatebot.com/presets-default/#pinallexceptpeerdependencies

And these will probably override rangeStrategy.

Thus, if a user (like me) tries to write the configuration they are looking for in a straightforward way, the rangeStrategy will not be set as expected.

// https://github.com/ishowta/my-test-repo-of-renovate/blob/main/renovate.json
// https://github.com/ishowta/my-test-repo-of-renovate/pull/7
{
  "extends": [
    "config:js-app",
    ":preserveSemverRanges"
  ]
}

Hope

It would be nice if an explanation were added, or if the packageRules written in extends were overridden by the user-written settings.

Remarks

I thought I did a quick test to make sure, but I'm a newbie so I might be doing something wrong. Sorry.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

It seems that config:js-* currently only adds pin settings, so why don't you rename it to something like config:pin-js-*?

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

No

[github-actions]

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[ishowta]

this is minimal reproduction repository.

• renovate.json
• config.js
• package.json I've included a few packages to show that they will be pinned.
• Github Action for renovate
• Pin dependencies pull request

[rarkins]

repositories is not a valid field in renovate.json

[ishowta]

I was confusing the repository configuration with the BOT configuration. Created config.js. I have updated it, can you please check it?

[rarkins]

If you specify printConfig=true in your config.js then it should print out the full config after all presets are resolved. This will probably give us an indication of why the ordering is not happening why you expect.

[ishowta]

full config: https://gist.github.com/ishowta/6f8c59fee6be6ad0035378c2ce3ac6a7

relevant part: https://gist.github.com/ishowta/6f8c59fee6be6ad0035378c2ce3ac6a7#file-config-json-L1812-L1823

[ishowta]

This is a feature request, and I don't consider it a bug. Just for the record.

[renovate-release]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 31.3.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• GitHub release
• 31.3.0

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