So what about usage? Although only part of the story and doesn’t say anything about the usefulness, it’s interesting to see an approximation of how many are using each package manager.

With pnpm modules only have access to dependencies included in their package.json. This means that using npm you can forget to add a module dependency to package.json and it still works, as long as at least one of the dependencies in the project includes it. In contrast to npm and yarn who creates a flat structure with all modules stored in the root. pnpm only stores direct dependencies (that are noted in package.json as dependencies) in the root of the node_modules folder, In addition pnpm handles transitive dependencies more strictly. Pnpm uses a content-addressable filesystem to store all files from all module directories on a disk Kudos for a quick fix from the pnpm team! This was reported by one of our users and fixed by the pnpm maintainers (so make sure to use pnpm version ^5.1.3). Sidenote: When we first released Bytesafe, it did not work that well with pnpm, due to a bug where some auth headers were missing from the pnpm requests. So how does pnpm actually work with Bytesafe? Let’s find out. And we want our users to be able to keep using the tools of their choice. The primary focus for this has been npm followed by yarn.īut users that have adopted pnpm really seem to like it and articles on the web speak warmly about it. One of the goals of Bytesafe has always been to allow our users to continue using their regular tools when working with JavaScript packages in private npm registries. Its main unique feature is an efficient node_modules structure that prevents multiple copies of the same dependency and therefore saves you disk space. Pnpm is a package manager for the JavaScript ecosystem that seems to be the only real alternative package manager besides the big two, npm and yarn.

Npm config set registry to default