pnpm VS berry

We assume that Node.js and pnpm are already installed. The setup was performed on macOS, but it should work in any modern shell environment.

I think this is somewhat funny.

His comment is pretty understandable if you've done frontend work in javascript.

Node_modules is so ripe for duplicate content that some tools explicitly call out that they're disk efficient (It's literally in the tagline for PNPM "Fast, disk space efficient package manager": https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm)

So he got ok results (~13% savings) on possibly the best target content available in a user's home directory.

Then he got results so bad it's utterly not worth doing on the rest (0.10% - not 10%, literally 1/10 of a single percent).

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Deduplication isn't super simple, isn't always obviously better, and can require other system resources in unexpected ways (ex - lots of CPU and RAM). It's a cool tech to fiddle with on a NAS, and I'm generally a fan of modern CoW filesystems (incl APFS).

But I want to be really clear - this is people picking spare change out of the couch style savings. Penny wise, pound foolish. The only people who are likely to actually save anything buying this app probably already know it, and have a large set of real options available. Everyone else is falling into the "download more ram" trap.

3) Pnpm (Space Saver & high performant)

pnpm or npm or yarn

My stack of choice is node and pnpm, but this should work for most commonly used tools.

pnpm 10

The State of JavaScript 2024 survey results GitHub Copilot is now Free Tailwind CSS 4 JerryScript 3.0 Transformers.js v3.2 Bun 1.1.39 & 1.1.40 pnpm Update ESLint v9.17.0

Pretty simple. Now, I just needed to change the code to use Playwright instead of Puppeteer and Jest. Oh, and I also wanted to use pnpm instead of npm. Here’s a link to my forked GitHub repo.

2) Yarn (Speedy & Reliable)

Yarn

Yarn Berry is a package management system for Node.js, created by Mäl Nison, the main developer of Yarn v1. The official version (v2) has been released since January 25, 2020, and is now being adopted by large open source repositories such as Babel. Yarn Berry is managed by source code in the GitHub repository. This is a post by @solleedata explaining Yarn Berry in more detail, from which the description above is copied.

Yarn(v4.2.2)

npm or yarn or yarn

If you’re a Node.js developer, then you’re familiar with npm and Yarn. You might even have a strong opinion about using one over the other. For years, developers have been struggling with the bloat — in disk storage and build time — when working with Node.js package managers, especially npm.

In my case, I like to use pnpm to reduce the disk size of the node_modules folder. Therefore, the example of the Next.js Docker image uses this package manager, but you can make slight adjustments to use npm or yarn if you prefer.

Yarn

Yarn (or npm or pnpm)