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		joshstrange 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a ... > React happily also has 0 dependencies, Ok, but it has 112 devDependencies, I'm not really sure "0 dependencies" best describes React.

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K0IN 10 days ago | [–]

Dev dependencies are not installed when you install the package into your project.

Also I checked how many deps vuejs has, also 0.

hokkos 10 days ago | [–]

Those are not installed.

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