Ability to skip running project's prepare script when running npm install in the project

[trusktr]

I put prepare scripts in my projects so that if they are installed as git dependencies in other projects, then prepare will build things as needed.

However, when I run npm install in a project, I want prepare to run only for dependencies that I've installed into my project, and not for the project itself.

Is this possible?

If not, I maybe it would be good feature to add. A good reason for adding such a feature is that running npm install only for it to fail because the project is in a broken state is annoying. Sometimes, you just need to install things in the process of getting the project working again.

We can open package.json and temporarily remove the prepare script as a workaround. It would be nicer though, if I could stick something in my project's .npmrc and never have to do that again (only when running npm install directly in the project, but the prepare script should still always run when it is installed as a git dependency for example).

[ljharb]

The best practice is to build prepublish, and not to inflict a build step on every consumer of your package. When would you want npm install to work but npm run prepare fails? (iow, i don't understand when "sometimes" applies)

[trajano]

I am hitting a similar issue, in my case I just want to do an npm update of one single package which I know will cause a build error due to the typecheck executed in prepare is there a way to get around that? --ignore-scripts do not appear to work.