Hmm, I looked at a few projects and the types were in devDependencies and I wonder what's different in this one that requires the types to be in dependencies.

The react type is common enough where consuming apps almost always include it so you won't see any breakages. The other one, not so much so without it npm won't pull it as transitive dep.

Do you mind taking a look at some other repos that don't include @types in their dependencies? These are written in TypeScript.

• react headless-ui from tailwind: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/headlessui/blob/main/packages/%40headlessui-react/package.json#L46
• floating-ui https://github.com/floating-ui/floating-ui/blob/master/packages/react-dom/package.json#L68
• Milkdown https://github.com/Milkdown/milkdown/blob/main/packages/react/package.json#L42

yeah they're wrong microsoft/types-publisher#81 (comment)

Ah, well, that's a good resolution for me – it's a real disagreement and not failure to communicate. Thanks.