[DOCS] npm install references deprecated flag --production

[dellch]

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This is a CLI Docs Problem, not another kind of Docs Problem.

• This is a CLI Docs Problem.

Description of Problem

The deprecated --production flag is used when it should likely be --omit=dev in cli/docs/lib/content/commands/npm-install.md here on lines 55-62.

Potential Solution

I suggest using:

• --omit=dev instead of the deprecated flag --production, and
• --include=dev instead of the --production=false.

This matches the change made for the npm prune documentation in #6987

With the --omit=dev flag (or if the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production), npm will not install modules listed in devDependencies. To install all modules listed in both dependencies and devDependencies when the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production, you can use --include=dev.

NOTE: The --omit=dev flag has no particular meaning when adding a dependency to a project.

Affected URL

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/commands/npm-install

[dellch]

I have opened #8026 to address this.

[ljharb]

production is a much better and clearer flag name than “omit dev”, and i think it’d be better to remove the deprecation then to double down on it.