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Do not install developer dependencies for NodeJS

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The NodeJS language install command uses --dev (which should be --include=dev, #1983) to install packages. This is unneeded.

Packages only require the production (dependencies) installed. Any package that is requiring the developer dependencies to be installed to operate is broken.

If a package is using peerDependencies then additional_dependencies should be used to install them.

This is an issue when installing NPM modules when the developer dependencies are of significant size. The pre-commit users have to sit through a lengthy download session when warming up the pre-commit cache. The downloaded dependencies are unused once installed.

pre-commit --version

pre-commit 2.17.0

.pre-commit-config.yaml

# any config that installs NPM modules

~/.cache/pre-commit/pre-commit.log (if present)

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asottilecommented, Aug 15, 2022

no it shouldn’t be configurable – though deleting ./node_modules after install should be safe if you’d want to pursue that instead

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asottilecommented, Aug 15, 2022

but you’ll need to do some research to make sure that’s safe as well

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