dependencies 和 devDependencies

npm install node_module –save自动更新dependencies字段值

npm install node_module –save-dev自动更新devDependencies字段值

看下面的一个package.json文件

{
  "private": true,
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "YOUR DESCRIPTION - Generated by generator-react-webpack",
  "main": "",
  "scripts": {
    "clean": "rimraf dist/*",
    "copy": "copyfiles -f ./src/index.html ./src/favicon.ico ./dist",
    "dist": "npm run copy & webpack --env=dist",
  },
  "repository": "",
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "Your name here",
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.0.0",
    "babel-eslint": "^6.0.0",
    "babel-loader": "^6.0.0",
    "babel-polyfill": "^6.3.14",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.0.15",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.0.15",
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.5.0",
    "bower-webpack-plugin": "^0.1.9",
    "chai": "^3.2.0",
    "copyfiles": "^1.0.0",
    "css-loader": "^0.23.0",
    "eslint": "^3.0.0",
    "eslint-loader": "^1.0.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "^6.0.0",
    "file-loader": "^0.9.0",
    "mocha": "^3.0.0",
    "null-loader": "^0.1.1",
    "open": "0.0.5",
    "phantomjs-prebuilt": "^2.0.0",
    "react-addons-test-utils": "^15.0.0",
    "react-hot-loader": "^1.2.9",
    "rimraf": "^2.4.3",
    "style-loader": "^0.13.0",
    "url-loader": "^0.5.6",
    "webpack": "^1.12.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.12.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "core-js": "^2.0.0",
    "normalize.css": "^4.0.0",
    "react": "^15.0.0",
    "react-dom": "^15.0.0"
  }
}

相信你已经找到了区别：

devDependencies只用于开发阶段完成集成测试等功能模块依赖；（例如eslint，webpack的loader）

dependencies  实际生产环境所需要模块依赖；（例如：react框架的核心文件）

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