docs: improve explanation of --prod flag #500
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The
--prod
flag for thepnpm install
command is not well displayed as a boolean value.It is unclear that one can use the flag like this
pnpm install --prod=false
to use a "development" install in a production environment. This has already happened to some people: pnpm/pnpm#6254This PR tries to explain the option a bit better, so its use-case is a bit more clear, and aims to make the docs page more consistent.
I took inspiration from how the
--frozen-lockfile
option works: https://pnpm.io/cli/install#--frozen-lockfile