diff --git a/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/JsPackageManager.ts b/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/JsPackageManager.ts
index 4900ba2fe88e..107b39ab62b0 100644
--- a/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/JsPackageManager.ts
+++ b/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/JsPackageManager.ts
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ export abstract class JsPackageManager {
     command: string,
     args: string[],
     stdio?: 'pipe' | 'inherit',
-    cwd?: string
+    cwd?: string,
+    ignoreError?: boolean
   ): string {
     const commandResult = spawnSync(command, args, {
       cwd: cwd ?? this.cwd,
@@ -425,7 +426,7 @@ export abstract class JsPackageManager {
       shell: true,
     });
 
-    if (commandResult.status !== 0) {
+    if (commandResult.status !== 0 && ignoreError !== true) {
       throw new Error(commandResult.stderr ?? '');
     }
 
diff --git a/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/NPMProxy.ts b/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/NPMProxy.ts
index 709b6703eef8..f8f7eb9f231f 100644
--- a/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/NPMProxy.ts
+++ b/code/lib/cli/src/js-package-manager/NPMProxy.ts
@@ -48,12 +48,19 @@ export class NPMProxy extends JsPackageManager {
   }
 
   public runPackageCommand(command: string, args: string[], cwd?: string): string {
-    return this.executeCommand(`npm`, ['exec', '--', command, ...args], undefined, cwd);
+    return this.executeCommand('npm', ['exec', '--', command, ...args], undefined, cwd);
   }
 
   public findInstallations() {
     const pipeToNull = platform() === 'win32' ? '2>NUL' : '2>/dev/null';
-    const commandResult = this.executeCommand('npm', ['ls', '--json', '--depth=99', pipeToNull]);
+    const commandResult = this.executeCommand(
+      'npm',
+      ['ls', '--json', '--depth=99', pipeToNull],
+      undefined,
+      undefined,
+      // ignore errors, because npm ls will exit with code 1 if there are e.g. unmet peer dependencies
+      true
+    );
 
     try {
       const parsedOutput = JSON.parse(commandResult);