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Fast, disk space efficient package manager:
- Fast. Up to 2x faster than the alternatives (seebenchmark).
- Efficient. Files inside
node_modulesare linked from a single content-addressable storage. - Great for monorepos.
- Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its
package.json. - Deterministic. Has a lockfile called
pnpm-lock.yaml. - Works as a Node.js version manager. Seepnpm env use.
- Works everywhere. Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Battle-tested. Used in production by teams ofall sizes since 2016.
- See the full feature comparison with npm and Yarn.
To quote theRush team:
Microsoft uses pnpm in Rush repos with hundreds of projects and hundreds of PRs per day, and we’ve found it to be very fast and reliable.
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pnpm uses a content-addressable filesystem to store all files from all module directories on a disk.When using npm, if you have 100 projects using lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk.With pnpm, lodash will be stored in a content-addressable storage, so:
- If you depend on different versions of lodash, only the files that differ are added to the store.If lodash has 100 files, and a new version has a change only in one of those files,
pnpm updatewill only add 1 new file to the storage. - All the files are saved in a single place on the disk. When packages are installed, their files are linkedfrom that single place consuming no additional disk space. Linking is performed using either hard-links or reflinks (copy-on-write).
As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations!If you'd like more details about the uniquenode_modules structure that pnpm creates andwhy it works fine with the Node.js ecosystem, read this small article:Flat node_modules is not the only way.
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pnpm is up to 2x faster than npm and Yarn classic. See all benchmarkshere.
Benchmarks on an app with lots of dependencies:
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