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Development Tools Understanding webpack.config.js

Posted by jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

Is the order of dependencies important?

Or can we list them in any random order?

2 Answers

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

Hiya there! If you're talking about order of plugins in Dependencies and DevDependencies in package.json file, then not really but if you really think it through, maybe it is teeny tiny important. Say you've a .babelrc.json file , and you have installed all dependencies and DevDependencies before installing babel-core plugin. So yeah whenever you'll run your file, it wont simply work, right? So yeah just its all about priorities, like some plugins needs to be installed before others. Thats the only thing i can think of. Its more like a common sense than the order of all dependencies.

~ Ari

Gabbie Metheny
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 Points
Gabbie Metheny
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 Points

I believe package.json just lists dependencies in alphabetical order by default, so I don't think it matters. You usually won't be manually adding the dependencies to your file, rather you'll be instructing npm to save packages as dependencies when you install them.

npm install jquery --save
// will add jquery to your dependencies
npm install webpack --save-dev
// will add webpack to your devDependencies