NPM strict mode

[shyim]

Problem

shopware-cli searches for any package.json and installs the dependencies. For some package.json files it's waste of time as they only install dev dependencies, like formatter, linter, typescript compiler etc. Therefore, it makes sense to use the dependencies and devDependencies feature of the package.json file.

• dependencies contains libraries which are required for the build step, no linter, formatter, type checker stuff.
• devDependencies contains everything else

Example:

 + @typescript-eslint/parser@5.57.0
 + @babel/eslint-parser@7.22.15
 + @shopware-ag/eslint-config-base@2.0.0
 + @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin@5.62.0 (v6.18.1 available)
 + eslint-import-resolver-webpack@0.13.7
 + eslint-plugin-file-progress@1.3.0
 + eslint-plugin-filename-rules@1.3.1
 + eslint-plugin-html@7.1.0
 + eslint-plugin-inclusive-language@2.2.0
 + eslint-plugin-jest@27.4.2
 + eslint-plugin-vue@9.14.1
 + eslint-plugin-vuejs-accessibility@2.1.0

everything installed of that extension is not relevant for the build result.

Solution

We have a new flag in the .shopware-extension.yml

# .shopware-extension.yml
npmStrict: true

When that is enabled, all npm install will be executed with --production flag. We check also before we execute the package manager if there is any dependency, to save time while executing the package manager.