Closed jpinho closed 2 years ago
Bundlers do not care whether things are dependencies or devDependencies, so from a practical standpoint with webpack, it doesn't matter.
When publishing to npm, it does matter whether it's a dependency or devDependency. There are some organizations that publish their microfrontends to npm, so that's a situation to consider and making react and react-dom dependencies there often makes sense.
The rule I generally follow is "devDependency is build-time and dependency is runtime" when I think about dependencies for web apps. If it's in the browser, it's a dependency but if it's just during build/test/lint then it's a devDependency. However, like i said, webpack doesn't enforce this.
My question is, given react and react-dom are part of the shared-dependencies, why aren't react and react-dom under dev dependencies like rxjs?