What's the difference between pub dependencies and dev_dependencies?

Question

What is the difference in dependencies and dev_dependencies in a pubspec.yaml? It seems that when I run pub get the

Answer 1

There are two types of dependencies, one is regular and the other is dev.

dependencies:

Regular dependencies are listed under dependencies:—these are packages that anyone using your package will also need.

dev_dependencies:

Dependencies that are only needed in the development phase of the package itself are listed under dev_dependencies.

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If your package (say A) depends on another package (say B) (which further has dev-dependencies), then your package (A) simply ignores the dev-dependencies used by that package (B here).

However, your package (A) depends on the packages (which are specified under dependency) of (B) package.