Development dependency?

[stacy-rendall]

The documentation Install section indicates this should be installed as a "dev" dependency, why is that?

As per https://docs.npmjs.com/specifying-dependencies-and-devdependencies-in-a-package-json-file, devDependencies are those that are only needed for local development and testing, whereas (as far as I can tell) this package would be carried through and used in production....?

[ZeeCoder]

It depends on your setup.
If you have a single repo responsible for both front- and backend, then node dependencies would be regular deps, and front-end ones would be Dev deps, as they would be bundled, but not shipped as-is.