Do I install the package as a dev dependency?

[TheMikeyRoss]

Hello everyone,

I have size-anxiety and I try to avoid installing any dependency in my UI kit library.

Do I install class-variance-authority as a dev dependency or do I have to install it as a regular dependency?

[bengry]

Hello everyone,

I have size-anxiety and I try to avoid installing any dependency in my UI kit library.

Do I install class-variance-authority as a dev dependency or do I have to install it as a regular dependency?

1. It wouldn't really matter. At the end of the day, given you use a bundler - if you require/import something and that's used by part of the bundled code, it's gonna get bundled - regardless of where it sits in the package.json.
2. a regular dependency (dependencies). Since the code is executed at runtime by the consumer. If you use SSR/SSG you could probably prevent this code from running on the client, but it would still run on the server at runtime/build time, respectively.

[TheMikeyRoss]

Awesome, thanks!