Is there a reason for app-snowpack-svelte-typescript including svelte as a production dependency?

[headphonejack]

Svelte itself is usually a devDependency, I believe because it is a compiler. I noticed incremental build/module reloading is a lot slower when it is included as a production dependency

  "dependencies": {
    "svelte": "^3.24.0"
  },

Is there a reason this is the case?

[drwpow]

Ah that’s a good observation! No, there’s no reason it can’t be a devDependency. Will open up an issue, please make a PR if you’re interested and have time!

[FredKSchott]

So this is not a huge issue either way, but the general approach that we've using for the templates is: frontend-facing deps go in "dependencies", tooling deps go in "devDependencies".

To be clear this shouldn't affect application/build/reload speed either way (Snowpack just grabs the frontend pieces of the package from your node_modules, regardless of how it was installed) but it's the conceptual difference between the two groups of deps that I'd like to maintain, for now.