Dependancy is getting installed as a devDependancy? about browserstack-cypress-cli

[grandEL-dsouza]

Hey there,

Please install the packages and configure the dependencies and dev dependencies separately.

"dependencies": { "chai": "^4.5.8", }, "devDependencies": { "@wdio/mocha-framework": "^7.5.0" }

This should resolve the issue.

[rforster-dev]

Thanks for the quick response.

In the package.json, we are specifying it like that. So it looks like (example):

dependancies: {
"node-fetch": "^x.x.xx",
...
}

and in my browserstack.json it has:

"npm_dependencies": {
 "node-fetch": "^x.x.xx",
}

But it still gets uploaded to browserstack through the cli as a devDependancy? As the test in the Browserstack says it cant find the module.

[rforster-dev]

https://github.com/browserstack/browserstack-cypress-cli/blob/425f260bc3b27555d44f9c3c82cf7c476b8123c1/bin/helpers/packageInstaller.js#LL33C11-L33C11 on this line I can see that it simply assumes all dependancies specified in npm_dependancies should be devDependancies.

This is incorrect I would say, and should be up to the consumer to decide on if we require dependancies or devdependancies?

[rforster-dev]

Closing this issue, as we have managed to get this working in our project. Whether or not publically this will be resolved I don't know, but whilst working with Browserstack we have got this working for dependancies to be installed correctly.