pnpm is an alternative package manager for Node.js. It is a drop-in replacement for npm, but faster and more efficient.

How fast? 3 times faster! (as of March 2017) See benchmarks here.

This article covers an old version of pnpm. For an updated version of the article >go here<.

New users of pnpm frequently ask me about the weird structure of node_modules that pnpm creates. Why is it not flat? Where are all the…

pnpm vs Yarn: monorepo node_modules

Both pnpm (as of v2.17) and Yarn (as of v1.12) support fast, concurrent installations in…

pnpm is a package manager for Node.js. I have written an article earlier about why should we use pnpm. In this article I want to demonstrate how using pnpm helps in preventing some silly bugs.

Today we’re excited to announce the release of pnpm 1!

Why only now? The initial commit to pnpm was made by Rico Sta. Cruz on Jan 27, 2016. It was based on the ideas of ied by Alexander Gugel with initial commit on Aug 6, 2015!

pnpm version 2 is out!

Last week v2.0 of pnpm was released. It’s been almost a year since version 1.0 came out and we were busy implementing…

The not fancy CLI output of pnpm

pnpm is a JavaScript package manager that differs from npm and Yarn in many ways. If you haven’t heard…

We introduced hooks to pnpm in version 1.12. In this article I want to write about why we think package managers (PMs) need hooks.

Why would we want to hook into `node_modules`?