title: is there a npm equivalent of bower pluggable resolvers
body: <p>Bower provides a very powerful plugin architecture for path resolvers to support bower packages installation from custom paths.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://bower.io/docs/pluggable-resolvers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bower.io/docs/pluggable-resolvers/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/1649" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/1649</a></p>
  
  <p>Is there any such equivalent in npm?</p>