What / Why

I have Typescript version ^3.7.4 installed as a devDependency in package.json:

{
  "name": "my-awesome-package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "typescript": "^3.7.4"
  }
}

When

I want to downgrade Typescript locked to the minor version 3.5, but with the newest patch versions applied. So the correct SemVer version tag would be with the tilde character, so ~3.5.0 in this case.

Current Behavior

Using NPM version 6.9.0 and Node 12.5.0.

I have tried running npm i -D typescript@~3.5.0, however after the installation package.json has "typescript": "^3.5.3".

Adding flag --save-exact doesn't work either, that results in "typescript": "3.5.3".

Expected Behavior

Package.json should have been updated with "typescript": "~3.5.3".

References

• StackOverflow: How to downgrade NPM package via CLI to an older minor version with using tilde version tag?
• Update overwriting tilde version number with caret npm#19585
• ~ dependencies are changed to ^ dependencies on new versions npm#19211