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What it is

pnpm (Rust) — Fast, disk space efficient package manager

What it does for you

You manage a monorepo or have multiple Node projects on one machine.

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CLI & Dev Tools

35.4k GitHub starsLicense: MITLast updated 1 month ago

EDITOR'S DEEP TAKE

Fast, disk-efficient Node package manager. ~30k stars. Replaces npm/yarn for monorepo work. Default for new TypeScript projects in 2026.

Use this if

You manage a monorepo or have multiple Node projects on one machine.

Skip if

You have a single project and npm works — no need to switch.

Categories

CLI & Dev Tools

Topics

npmdependency-managerpackage-managernodenodejsinstallmodulesjavascript

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Created 28 Jan 2016

Last push 1 month ago

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