pnpm

Since the last Radar, we’ve continued to receive positive feedback about pnpm from teams. pnpm is a Node.js package manager that delivers significant performance improvements over alternatives, both in speed and disk space efficiency. It hard-links duplicate packages from multiple projects’ node_modules folders to a single location on disk and supports incremental, file-level optimizations that further boost performance. Because pnpm offers a much faster feedback loop with minimal compatibility issues, it has become our default choice for Node.js package management.

pnpm is an up-and-coming package manager for Node.js that we're looking at closely because of its higher speed and greater efficiency compared to other package managers. Dependencies are saved in a single place on the disk and are linked into the respective node_modules directories. pnpm also supports incremental optimization on file level, provides a solid API foundation to allow extension/customization and supports store server mode, which speeds up dependency download even more. If your organization has a large number of projects with the same dependencies, you may want to take a closer look at pnpm.