Installing Payload without errors

julian.urabllast year

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  zed0547last year

  Hey

  @772528578058911765

  ,

  
  
  

  It seems you're trying to install Payload v3 dependencies and are mixing in Payload v2 ones as well. That won't work. Try

  npx create-payload-app@beta

  and make sure all of your Payload plugins match to the same version when you install them.

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  julian.urabllast year

  It does look like that to me as well, but that is the predefined dependency config I get when running npx create-payload-app

  
  
  

  So I'm not mixing anything myself here.

  
  
  

  Should npx create-payload-app@latest work like described in the docs? Is this supposed to install beta or stable?

  
  
  

  I'm not intending to work with beta as I want to use this in production

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  zed0547last year

  That's exactly what's happening. For V2 (Stable) you can do

  npx create-payload-app@latest
  
  

  Mind sharing your package.json?

  
  
  

  I've never seen it do that by itself on install, super strange

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  kokopilast year

  im having the same issue with

  npx create-payload-app@latest

  where it installs beta stuff and gives the same error described above. and running @beta works

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  zed0547last year

  Hmm alright, I'm trying this out right now - hang tight and thanks for your patience

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  kokopilast year

  also not compatible with node 23 apparently

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  zed0547last year

  Yeah v2 at this point is kind of on life support

  
  
  

  It's full steam ahead for v3

  
  
  

  Yup reproduced:

  
  
  

  ...
  "dependencies": {
      "@payloadcms/db-mongodb": "^1.0.0",
      "@payloadcms/live-preview-react": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/next": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/payload-cloud": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/plugin-form-builder": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/plugin-nested-docs": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/plugin-redirects": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/plugin-search": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/plugin-seo": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/richtext-lexical": "beta",
      "@payloadcms/ui": "beta",
  ...

  
  
  

  On a fresh website template

  
  
  

  I'll write an issue for this, in the meantime the workaround would be to install packages consistent with the template you're trying to use:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/templates
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  wing_tomlast year

  i'm having similar issues.

  
  

  i wanted to run 3.0 beta but i ran @latest and got "beta" on all the versions.

  
  
  

  Changed them all to 3.0.0-beta.122 (that seems to require react 19) but the richtext-slate package isn't compatible with react 19.

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  zed0547last year

  In your case you can run

  @beta

  on the cli command

  
  
  

  And be mindful as the React 19 version is pinned for v3

  
  
  

  I have an issue up, hang tight

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  michelcodelast year

  Happens here as well, using the blank template..

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  zed0547last year

  It's going to happen with all the templates (maybe with exception of payload-website) - I believe because the beta branch was set as default but I could be wrong here. Seems we're

  bleeding edge

  close to v3 being considered main, literally lol

  
  
  

  Hang tight

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  julian.urabllast year

  😄

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  zed0547last year

  Thanks for opening a thread here for this: looks like the devs are on it

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  denolfe

  last year

  Yep, looking into. We did some branch switching in the repo last night which likely is the cause.

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  zed0547last year

  Thanks Elliot

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  denolfe

  last year

  Just forgot to publish the new version that pins the version 😅

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  zed0547last year

  Works perfectly for me now -

  @772528578058911765

  should be good to go. I encourage you to mark this thread solved (via

  /solve

  ) in case there are other users who stumble across this and haven't checked closed issues in gh. Appreciate the speedy response and fix Elliot!

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  julian.urabllast year

  Awesome thanks! Will check asap and solve

  
  
  

  Works like a charm. Thanks for the quick response and to everyone helping to investigate the issue 🙏