[npm] Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run next command `npm update caniuse-lite browserslist`

Recently, when I compile my scss files I get an error. The error message says:

Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run next command npm update caniuse-lite browserslist

First, as the message says, I ran npm update caniuse-lite browserslist but it didn't fix the issue. I deleted the whole nod-modules directory and installed again, also I updated the whole folder by npm update but none of them solved the issue. I also reinstalled autoprefixer and browserslist but none of them solved the issue.

If I remove

"options": {
      "autoPrefix": "> 1%"
    }

from my compilerconfig.json, everything works fine which means probably it is related to autoprefixer. Also, I manually changed the package version to the latest version on package.json and reinstalled but no luck.

Deleting node_modules and package-lock.json and npm i solve the issue for me.

Many advise you to remove the package-lock.json or the yarn.lock. This is clearly a bad idea!

I am using Yarn and I was able to correct this problem by removing only the caniuse-db and caniuse-lite entries in my yarn.lock and doing a yarn.

It is not necessary to break the main function of the lockfile by deleting it.

npm --depth 9999 update fixed the issue for me--apparently because package-lock.json was insisting on the outdated versions.

Continuation of answer above.

Had the same "plugin error" as @MehrdadBabaki. I uninstalled web compiler, deleted the AppData WebCompiler folder mentioned above, then reopened VS2019 and reinstalled web compiler.

THEN I went to the WebCompiler folder again and did npm i autoprefixer@latest npm i caniuse-lite@latest and npm i caniuse-lite browserslist@latest

In my case this works fine...

sudo npm i -g browserslist caniuse-lite

Answer from @Alexandr Nil is safe, and was effective for me

I am writing as a full answer because it is easy to miss his comment.

npm --depth 20 update caniuse-lite browserslist 

This is good because:

1. There is no deletion of package-lock.json. Deleting that leaves you vulnerable to many packages getting upgraded with breaking changes.

2. It is explicit and very limited on which things are to be updated.

3. It avoids the very large depth of 99 or 9999 which will work on some projects and systems, but not on others. If you have limited the depth to too small a number, it will not break anything. You can increase the depth and try again, until the project compiles successfully.

For Angular Developers

Although, I'm answering this very late. I have a bad habit of checking changelogs of every library I use and while checking the release notes of Angular CLI, I figured out that they released a new patch yesterday (9th Jan 2020) which fixes this issue.

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/releases/tag/v8.3.22

So when you will run ng update, you should get updates for @angular/cli:

And running ng update @angular/cli will fix this warning.

Cheers!

As mentioned in Scott Kuhl's answer this issue is mentioned in https://github.com/madskristensen/WebCompiler/issues/413

For me, running the command npm i caniuse-lite- browserslist only worked for about 1/2 a day before it was an issue again.

The following solution, mentioned in the post, works much better. This updates the node.js file so that it uses console.log instead of console.warn when returning these errors.

You can manually update this file located at C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Temp\WebCompiler[VersionNumber]\node_modules\browserslist

Or, so that it is done automatically, add the following to your .csproj file by:

1. Right click on project file and select "Unload Project"
2. Edit the .csproj file
3. Paste the following into the project file. I pasted it towards the end of the file, before the </Project> end tag and before the build web compiler package was imported.

    <ItemGroup>
        <PackageReference Include="MSBuildTasks" Version="1.5.0.235">
            <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
            <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
        </PackageReference>
    </ItemGroup>
    <PropertyGroup>
        <TempFolder>$([System.IO.Path]::GetTempPath())</TempFolder>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <BrowsersListNodeJsFiles Include="$(TempFolder)\WebCompiler*\node_modules\browserslist\node.js" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <Target Name="BrowsersListWarningsAsInfo" BeforeTargets="WebCompile">
        <FileUpdate Files="@(BrowsersListNodeJsFiles)"
                    Regex="console.warn"
                    ReplacementText="console.log" />
    </Target>

4. Reload the project back into the solution.

Minimal solution that worked for me for current project

• A create-react-app project
• Ubuntu / *nix
• 2020
• Node 14.7

delete node_modules/browserslist directory in the project

now

npm run build

no longer generates that message

In my case, I deleted out the caniuse-lite, browserslist folders from node_modules.

Then I type the following command to install the packages.

npm i -g browserslist caniuse-lite --save

worked fine.

If you use yarn:

yarn upgrade

Help for me

I found a short cut rather than going through vs code appData/webCompiler, I added it as a dependency to my project with this cmd npm i caniuse-lite browserslist. But you might install it globally to avoid adding it to each project.

After installation, you could remove it from your project package.json and do npm i.

Update:

In case, Above solution didn't fix it. You could run npm update, as this would upgrade deprecated/outdated packages.

Note:

After you've run the npm update, there may be missing dependencies. Trace the error and install the missing dependencies. Mine was nodemon, which I fix by npm i nodemon -g

I did downgrade the node version from 12 to 10

EDIT

This error occurred with me because I was using node version 12. When I downgrade to version 10.16.5 this error stops. This error happened in my local env, but in prod and staging, it not happens. In prod and staging node version is 10.x so I just do this and I didn't need to update any package in my package.json

I've fixed this issue by doing, step by step:

1. remove node_modules
2. remove package-lock.json,
3. run npm --depth 9999 update
4. run npm install

To fix the issue you can type below command:

'npm -g update'

I'm not exactly sure where my problem was, but I believe it was because I was using the same global packages from both npm and Yarn.

I uninstalled all the npm global packages, then when using yarn commands once again, the problem was gone.

To see global packages installed...

for npm:

npm ls -g --depth=0

for Yarn:

yarn global list

I then uninstalled each package I saw in the npm listing, using:

npm uninstall -g <package-name>

Try this it solved my problem npx browserslist@latest --update-db

I had same problem too this command works for me

npm i autoprefixer@latest

It automatically added need dependency in package.json and package-lock.json file like below:

package.json

"autoprefixer": "^9.6.5",

package-lock.json

"@angular-devkit/build-angular": {

...

"dependencies": {
    "autoprefixer": {
      "version": "9.4.6",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/autoprefixer/-/autoprefixer-9.4.6.tgz",
      "integrity": "sha512-Yp51mevbOEdxDUy5WjiKtpQaecqYq9OqZSL04rSoCiry7Tc5I9FEyo3bfxiTJc1DfHeKwSFCUYbBAiOQ2VGfiw==",
      "dev": true,
      "requires": {
        "browserslist": "^4.4.1",
        "caniuse-lite": "^1.0.30000929",
        "normalize-range": "^0.1.2",
        "num2fraction": "^1.2.2",
        "postcss": "^7.0.13",
        "postcss-value-parser": "^3.3.1"
      }
    },

...

  }

...

"autoprefixer": {
    "version": "9.6.5",
    "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/autoprefixer/-/autoprefixer-9.6.5.tgz",
    "integrity": "sha512-rGd50YV8LgwFQ2WQp4XzOTG69u1qQsXn0amww7tjqV5jJuNazgFKYEVItEBngyyvVITKOg20zr2V+9VsrXJQ2g==",
    "requires": {
      "browserslist": "^4.7.0",
      "caniuse-lite": "^1.0.30000999",
      "chalk": "^2.4.2",
      "normalize-range": "^0.1.2",
      "num2fraction": "^1.2.2",
      "postcss": "^7.0.18",
      "postcss-value-parser": "^4.0.2"
    },

...

}