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  Nothing kills development momentum faster than a package manager error. You initialize a new React project, attempt to install the industry-standard   eslint-config-airbnb , and immediately hit a wall of red text starting with   ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree . For years,  eslint-config-airbnb  has been the gold standard for maintaining code quality in JavaScript teams. However, since the release of npm 7 (and continuing into npm 8, 9, and 10), installing this configuration has become a source of significant frustration. This guide provides the technical root cause of this failure and details two robust methods to resolve it, ensuring your linting pipeline works correctly in modern CI/CD environments. The Root Cause: Why ERESOLVE Happens To fix the problem effectively, you must understand the algorithmic change introduced in npm 7. In older versions of npm (v4 through v6),  peer dependencies  were largely advisory. If a package requested...