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cyrilwanner / next-compose-plugins

💡next-compose-plugins provides a cleaner API for enabling and configuring plugins for next.js
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Why not install as devDependency ? #15

Closed Vadorequest closed 5 years ago

Vadorequest commented 5 years ago

I just wonder why this isn't installed as dev dependency since it's not required at runtime but only at build time. Could anyone shine some light on this?

cyrilwanner commented 5 years ago

It is actually also required at runtime. You define the plugins and use this package in the next.config.js. This config file is used in all phases of next.js, during development, production build and production server (https://github.com/zeit/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next-server/lib/constants.js#L3). So when you start your production server, next.js still parses this config file to, for example, know from where assets should be served etc. (you can also verify this by adding a console log to your next.config.js)

I hope that this clarifies why it can't be installed as a dev dependency. Otherwise, just reopen this issue or create a new one :)