Webpack-cli: Many devDependencies listed as dependencies

[billyjanitsch]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

What is the current behavior?

Many devDependencies of this project are listed as dependencies in package.json such as prettier and codecov. This causes them to be installed when a user installs webpack-cli.

There are also some dependencies that don't appear to be used at all, such as global.

If a dependency isn't needed at runtime, it shouldn't be listed in dependencies.

What is the expected behavior?

Only the dependencies necessary to run webpack-cli are installed alongside it.

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behavior?

webpack-cli is currently a _huge_ install (~66mb). It would be nice to cut down on the dependencies it requires, especially since this project is now required to interact with webpack via CLI.

[olore]

Relatedly (?) the inclusion of the following is erroring on my build servers because of proxy issues and what not.

 "yeoman-generator": "github:ev1stensberg/generator#Feature-getArgument"

Is there a plan to get this into a published npm package soon? Can I help? /ping @ev1stensberg

[ematipico]

About the local fork, we have an open issue here #161, we are looking for the best solution.

About the dependencies, it would be nice to have a PR. It shouldn't be too difficult. Help is appreciated!

[olore]

Thanks @ematipico. Not sure how I missed that one.

Looks like there is already a PR for the dependencies from @billyjanitsch https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/309