What is a Transitive Dependency?

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A transitive dependency is a dependency of a dependency. They form a transitive relationship in the dependency tree. ¹⁾.

This is the default type of dependency relationship in a package manager.

Who provides a transitive depenency?

Your application does not need to provide the dependency (contrary to a peerDependencies)

The dependency is declared as a direct dependency in the parent dependency and is provided by the package manager.