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+# react-scripts (kept only as the Jest test runner, see package.json) still declares a
+# typescript ^3.2.1||^4 peer constraint that's stale for our actual (Next.js-driven) TS 5.x --
+# it doesn't type-check via that peer path, so the conflict is safe to relax.
+legacy-peer-deps=true