While working on the redevelopment for the Xavier University V4 project. I’ve determined that I needed to get a better understanding of
the various components that I’m using to manage the project. One of the components is Bower. I didn’t quite grasp the idea
between a dependency and a devDependency within pacakge.json.
Luckily I’m not the only person that had no idea.
- Dependencies - Intended for use in production, and implied that it will be required for development purposes too.
- devDependencies - Intended for use in development only. Does not imply that it will be used for a production environment.
It’s times like this I’m thankful that StackOverflow still has good people out there to answer questions instead of bashing people for not knowing.