Exploring the Difference Between the Effects of Dependencies and Peer Dependencies after NPM v7 | 8 Hobbies JavaScript Blog

Npm allows multiple types of dependencies, two of which are dependencies and peerDependencies. Semantically, they refer to different things: peerDependencies expresses the compatibility of a package with a host tool or library, usually referred to as a plugin, while dependencies expresses dependencies in the general sense.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://8hob.io/posts/difference-between-effects-of-dependencies-peerdependencies-npm-v7