Add is one of the commands of the pub tool.

$ dart pub add [{dev|override}:]<package>[:<descriptor>] [[{dev|override}:]<package>[:<descriptor>] ...] [options]

This command adds the specified packages to the pubspec.yaml as dependencies, and then retrieves the dependencies to resolve pubspec.yaml.

The following example command is equivalent to editing pubspec.yaml to add the http package, and then calling dart pub get:

$ dart pub add http

By default, dart pub add uses the latest stable version of the package from the pub.dev site that is compatible with your SDK constraints and dependencies. For example, if 0.13.3 is the latest stable version of the http package, then dart pub add http adds http: ^0.13.3 under dependencies in your pubspec.yaml.

You can also specify a constraint or constraint range:

$ dart pub add foo:2.0.0
$ dart pub add foo:'^2.0.0'
$ dart pub add foo:'>=2.0.0 <3.0.1'

If the specified package is an existing dependency in your pubspec.yaml, dart pub add updates the dependency's constraint to the one specified in the command.

The dev: prefix adds the package as a dev dependency, instead of as a regular dependency.

$ dart pub add dev:foo           # adds newest compatible stable version of foo
$ dart pub add dev:foo:^2.0.0    # adds specified constraint of foo
$ dart pub add foo dev:bar       # adds regular dependency foo and dev dependency bar simultaneously

Previously the -d, --dev option:

$ dart pub add --dev foo

To specify a dependency override, add the override: prefix and include a version constraint or other package descriptor.

For example: To override all references to package:foo to use version 1.0.0 of the package, run the following command:

$ dart pub add override:foo:1.0.0

This adds the override to your pubspec.yaml file:

dependency_overrides:
  foo: 1.0.0

To specify the version or dependency source when adding a dependency, use the package descriptor syntax after the package name and a colon. For example, the following command adds package:foo as a dev dependency using a git repository as the dependency source:

$ dart pub add dev:foo:"{git: https://github.com/foo/foo}"

The descriptor syntax allows you to add multiple packages from different sources as dependencies and apply different options and constraints to each.

For options that apply to all pub commands, see Global options.

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Reports which dependencies would change, but doesn't change any.

By default, pub precompiles executables in immediate dependencies (--precompile). To prevent precompilation, use --no-precompile.

By default, after adding the specified dependencies, pub also retrieves the dependencies of the example/ directory of the package (--example). To skip retrieving example dependencies, use --no-example.

In a Pub workspace dart pub add will add dependencies only to the package in the current directory.

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