fix: error check for package

[apinanyogaratnam]

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fix: error check for package which could be in regular dependencies but should be in the dev dependencies

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[apinanyogaratnam]

I had an issue of cannot read value of .startsWith of undefined and the reason is because we installed this in the dependencies not devDependencies, this aims to provide better error messaging.