Latest version doesn't support react 17 - Could not resolve dependency: peer react@"^16.8"

[mfbx9da4]

Current behavior

Installing the latest rn version depends on react 17 but async storage depends on react 16

╰─$ npm i @react-native-community/async-storage                           130 ↵
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]
npm ERR! Found: [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   react@"17.0.2" from the root project
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer react@"^16.8" from @react-native-community/[email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/@react-native-community/async-storage
npm ERR!   @react-native-community/async-storage@"*" from the root project
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR! 

[tido64]

Closing since you figured it out here: #682 (comment)