chore: downgrade yargs-parser to v21 (#618)

Author: himanshusinghs

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ updates:
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+    ignore:
+      # We are ignoring major updates on yargs-parser because yargs-parser@22
+      # does not play nicely when bundled using webpack. Our VSCode extension
+      # bundles MCP server with the extension code and yargs-parser from MCP
+      # server ends up on the final bundle which leads to issues such as -
+      # https://github.com/mongodb-js/vscode/issues/1149.
+      #
+      # This was reported to yargs-parser as well -
+      # https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser/issues/517 and we already tried
+      # their suggestion about disabling the meta resolution in webpack,
+      # alongside others (dependency overrides, disabling the bundling of
+      # yargs-parser), and none of the solutions yield a working extension. So
+      # until we figure out a fix for this we need to keep mongodb-mcp-server
+      # working with v21 of yargs-parser.
+      - dependency-name: "yargs-parser"
+        update-types: ["version-update:semver-major"]
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:

package-lock.json

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
     "@types/yargs-parser": "^21.0.3",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^8.44.0",
     "@vitest/coverage-v8": "^3.2.4",
+    "@vitest/eslint-plugin": "^1.3.4",
     "ai": "^4.3.17",
     "duplexpair": "^1.0.2",
     "eslint": "^9.34.0",
@@ -93,7 +94,6 @@
     "tsx": "^4.20.5",
     "typescript": "^5.9.2",
     "typescript-eslint": "^8.41.0",
-    "@vitest/eslint-plugin": "^1.3.4",
     "uuid": "^13.0.0",
     "vitest": "^3.2.4"
   },
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     "oauth4webapi": "^3.8.0",
     "openapi-fetch": "^0.14.0",
     "ts-levenshtein": "^1.0.7",
-    "yargs-parser": "^22.0.0",
+    "yargs-parser": "21.1.1",
     "zod": "^3.25.76"
   },
   "engines": {