What is the difference between --save and --save-dev?

Question

What is the difference between:

npm install [package_name]

and:

npm install [package_name] --save

and:

Answer 1

People use npm on production to do wicked cool stuff, Node.js is an example of this, so you don't want all your dev tools being run.

If you are using gulp (or similar) to create build files to put on your server then it doesn't really matter.