pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
I'm pretty immune to most JS ecosystem churn, but on package managers I'm feeling it.<p>All I want is a package manager that is correct, causes very few day to day issues and is going to work the same way for many years. Yet everyone seems to be optimizing disk usage and speed without even getting the basics (make it work, make it right) fully covered.<p>I don't understand why people are optimizing for disk space at all tbh. Like, have you ever edited a video project, used docker, installed Xcode? I cannot imagine what you must be doing for all node_modules combined to take up more than maybe 100 GB on disk.<p>pnpm seems to be the lightest of the bunch, which is nice but why even mess with symlinks and confuse other tools? Just put all the files in there, nest them and duplicate them and everything. I'll happily live with my 10 GB node_modules folder that never breaks and sometimes gives me a nice coffee break.<p>Possibly I'm actually just salty that Metro doesn't support symlinks and would otherwise be on the pnpm love-train.