You can generate NPM dependency trees without the need of installing
a dependency by using the command
npm list
This will generate a dependency tree for the project at the current directory and print it to the console.
You can get the dependency tree of a specific dependency like so:
npm list [dependency]
You can also set the maximum depth level by doing
npm list --depth=[depth]
Note that you can only view the dependency tree of a dependency that you have installed either globally, or locally to the NPM project.