Selectize.js: npm package should not have "dependencies", just "devDependencies"

[vivainio]

We want to install the 'selectize' npm package just to get access to dist/selectize.js - i.e. we want to use the package similarly to the way you use it from bower (without browserify/webpack).

Currently package.json contains:

  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "^1.7.0",
    "microplugin": "0.0.3",
    "sifter": "^0.5.1"
  }

We don't want to install any of these, and sifter is a problematic dependency because of the transient C++ dependency.

It would be useful to either have this changed, or publish a new npm package without production dependencies.

[joallard]

In my understanding, dependencies are packages you need to run the library, devDependencies being packages you need to work on improving the library. Hence, we're saying Selectize cannot be ran without packages Jquery, Microplugin and Sifter.

Can you walk me through your logic?

[heldchen]

ran into exactly the same issue today. coming from Bower. I was surprised by the 16 dependencies pulled in due to the sifter and microplugin dependencies - as we're including just the standalone dist files from selectize directly in a <script> tag.

[barry-johnson]

Just adding my thoughts that a correct package.json without the unneeded dependencies would be nice. I am not sure why the change is significant as it will just be removing the dependencies section from package.json. None of the listed items are dependencies in the typical NPM sense, as @vivainio explained.