Solving npm Usage of the --dev option is deprecated. Use --only=dev instead.

Problem:

You want to install development dependencies for a NodeJS package using

npm install --dev

but you get this error message:

npm WARN install Usage of the `--dev` option is deprecated. Use `--only=dev` instead.

Solution

You can use

npm install # Install normal (not development) dependencies
npm install --only=dev # Install only development dependencies

instead. Note that npm install --only=dev will only install development dependencies, so in most cases you want to run both commands.