Automatically install devDependencies?

[mfolkeseth]

Before anything else, I just want to give you guys some props for this awesome project. Grat work! 🎉

Now over to my question. I was just wondering if there is any particular reason why pika ignores devDependences by default (unless webDependenceies is set in package.json). Am I missing something?

[ematipico]

Why would you need a dev dependency when you run your application in production?

[mfolkeseth]

This setup works great in out dev mode, but not in our production setup. It can be solved through webDependencies so it's not an issue, just a question 😄

[FredKSchott]

Thanks @mfolkeseth! The only reason was that a project could have a lot of devDependencies, and most of the related to node.js tooling, so most of them wouldn't make sense for the web. I think that still makes sense as a default, especially since the whitelist exists.

Trying to be good about moving feature discussions to Spectrum (and keeping Github issues for bugs & prs) so feel free to continue the discussion here -> https://spectrum.chat/pika/pika-pack/automatically-install-devdependencies-31~0f6032df-f1f3-4145-9be4-395683e49c17

[mfolkeseth]

Thanks @FredKSchott! That was kind of the answer I expected 👍
There are no stupid questions, right 😄

[FredKSchott]

RIGHT! :D