Why install craco as dependencies but not devDependencies?

[zhaoyao91]

Why install craco as dependencies but not devDependencies?

[patricklafrance]

@ndbroadbent can you answer this one?

[zhaoyao91]

I tried to install it as devDependence. By now I didn't find any problem.

[patricklafrance]

@zhaoyao91 same here. The documentation have been updated to install craco as dependencies after a comment made by @ndbroadbent but I dont remember the specific reason.

[ndbroadbent]

Here is the previous discussion: #23

This was important for when you are deploying to Heroku, or building a Docker image, because craco is required during a production build (same as react-scripts.) Check out some of the issues that I linked for the facebook/create-react-app repo where people also talk about this issue.

So I thought it would be good to match the behavior of react-scripts and also put craco in the dependencies section. But it's totally up to you, and devDependencies is also fine if it works for you.

[patricklafrance]

Thank you @ndbroadbent

[takhello]

It seems that react is not very sound, not very willing to use