Making sure NPM dev dependencies match corresponding peer dependencies

Question

I pretty much always end up adding my NPM modules peer dependencies to dev dependencies as well because I need the peer dependencies installed so I can run automated tests before building the package. This creates the problem that I might accidentally use different version number for peer and dev. I find it odd that npm and yarn do not install the peer dependencies automatically when I run npm install or the yarn command. In some cases I have found that yarn even tries to prevent me from adding the same dependency as both peer and dev dependency. I think I'm doing something wrong but I haven't been able to figure out the intended workflow. Can someone explain to me how this is supposed to work?