How to resolve deprecated node-uuid message

When installing npm packages, you might see a warning message that says node-uuid is deprecated.

The message look as follows:

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead

The message appears because the development of the node-uuid package has stopped since 2017.

There’s a new project named uuid which is the successor of node-uuid.

The module node-uuid is still available from npm for backward compatibility purposes.

To resolve the deprecated warning message, you need to replace node-uuid with uuid as shown below:

npm uninstall --save node-uuid
npm install --save uuid

The uuid package should now be added to the dependencies list in your package.json file.

At times, the warning may show up when you install a certain package from npm.

One example is when you install an old version of the cordova package:

$ npm install [email protected]
# ...
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead

The deprecated warning appears because cordova depends on the node-uuid package.

Only the package maintainers can update the dependency. To resolve the warning, you should look to the Github page of the project and see if there’s a newer package that depends on uuid instead of node-uuid.

At the time of this writing, all actively maintained npm packages should already switch to uuid from node-uuid.

And that’s how you resolve the node-uuid deprecated message.