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Add a development dependency

To add an npm package as a development dependency, use bun add --development.

bun add zod --dev
bun add zod -d # shorthand

This adds the package to devDependencies in package.json.

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "zod": "^4.0.0" // [!code ++]
  }
}