Providing an IPython Interpreter During Development in a Hatch Project

I have a project using Hatch as a build system for pyproject. My pyproject.toml looks like this:

[project]
name = "demo"
description = "Demo Project"
version = "0.0.1"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.12"
dependencies = []

[project.optional-dependencies]
test = [
    "pytest",
    "ipython",
]

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

[tool]

[tool.hatch.envs.default]
type = "virtual"
path = "venv"

I prefer using IPython as a REPL instead of just regular Python, since it adds a lot of features and nice-to-haves during development.

I’ve specified the dependency during the test phase in my optional dependencies, but I can’t seem to find the egg on-disk or a way to execute it.

Is there a way for me to use IPython in a Hatch project like this without making it a project dependency? It’s only relevant during local development.

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