npm_proposal.md

Please do not put test harnesses or transpilers in your dependencies object

Why so adamantly? In fact, the final product we can build using CI.
And for this reason I can not agree with the fact that grunt, browserify and so on are local dependencies.
The current scheme is relevant only for the server-side development, but not for the client.

Alternative scheme:

git/hooks/pre-push

#!/bin/sh

npm run jslint
npm test

package.json

{
    "scripts": {
        "lint": "jslint '...",
        "test": "mocha  '...",
        "grunt": "grunt"
    },

    "dependencies": {
        "requirejs": "2.1.22"
    },

    "deploymentDependencies": {
        "grunt": "0.4.5",
        "mocha": "2.4.5"
    },

    "devDependencies": {
        "jslint": "0.9.6"
    }
}

Local machine:

npm install
git commit -am '...'
git push origin branch # run pre-push hook

npm install --production --deployment
npm run grunt build:production
npm test
rsync ... # file transfer program

I propose to add something like deploymentDependencies as an alternative for client-side development.

So, what do you think?

monolithed/npm_proposal.md