Make it work if packages aren't already published to NPM?

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Make it work if packages aren't already published to NPM?

verdaccio?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51888198/skip-install-for-particular-dep

Is there a way to run npm install but skip a particular dependency?

Something like:

npm install --skip=lodash --skip=rxjs

In my case, I have some developer tooling and some dependencies may not actually be in the NPM registry yet, so I want to skip those.