Why does basetag only work as dependency but not devDependency?

[winston0410]

Hi, I have just tried out this awesome package, and it works great! However one thing I notice is that I doesn't work when I install it as devDependency.

Why is that? If I am correct, postinstall script would execute regardless a package being dependency or devDependency.

[janniks]

I wasn't aware of this. But thanks for the report.

We are working on an improved version of basetag, that should resolve this and some other problems. Will be ready in a few weeks.

[coolaj86]

What's the command you're using when you install?

This should work:

pushd ~/my-project
npm ci

However, I'd recommend that you NOT install it as a devDependency - unless you're "debase"ing your files for each commit.

Otherwise when you run npm ci --only=production, your requires will break in production.