Managing bower dependencies with ionic
After starting with a new ionic app, I can see at bower.json that comes with ionic is in devdependencies . Why is it a devdependency and not a normal dependency ? "devDependencies": { "ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#1.0.0-rc.0" }, Thanks, I feel confused right now having devDependencies gives you the opportunity to simplify the steps that drive you from the source files (a git clone of the project) to the production ready app when you don't need to make changes and (develop) the application, you could just run bower install --production or npm install --production they work the same bower