How to migrate a JavaScript project to pnpm (package manager)

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  • pnpm

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager

  • That is hard to predict! It is quite a popular project, with 18.6k stars on GitHub. It has some sponsorship. I think the future of npm and yarn are more assured because they are well funded. This is a common quandry in JavaScript-land really! I recall a package manager called tink that was moth-balled.

  • semver

    Semantic Versioning Specification

  • npm was developed in the early days of Node.js and is the default package manager of Node.js. npm was designed around the idea of Semantic Versioning (semver). The dependencies of a project are stored in package.json. npm installs dependencies in a non-deterministic way, meaning that two developers could have a different node_modules directory resulting into different behaviors.

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  • tink

    Discontinued a dependency unwinder for javascript (by npm)

  • That is hard to predict! It is quite a popular project, with 18.6k stars on GitHub. It has some sponsorship. I think the future of npm and yarn are more assured because they are well funded. This is a common quandry in JavaScript-land really! I recall a package manager called tink that was moth-balled.

  • npm

  • npm was developed in the early days of Node.js and is the default package manager of Node.js. npm was designed around the idea of Semantic Versioning (semver). The dependencies of a project are stored in package.json. npm installs dependencies in a non-deterministic way, meaning that two developers could have a different node_modules directory resulting into different behaviors.

  • yarn

    The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry

  • To resolve those problems and others, Facebook introduced a new package manager in 2016 called Yarn . Yarn was touted as being faster, more secure, and more reliable than npm. Yarn consumed the same package.json making it more straightforward to migrate. The differences between npm and Yarn were:

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