Using pnpm

The approach of pnpm feels a bit like the original package resolution of npm. Here, each package is essentially isolated and puts its own dependencies into a local node_modules subfolder.

There is, however, one crucial difference: instead of having a hard copy of each dependency, the different dependencies are made available through symbolic links. The advantage of this approach is that every dependency only needs to be resolved once per system.

The other advantage is that for most packages everything is as it should be. There is nothing hiding behind an archive or via some custom mapping defined by a module that would run in the beginning. The whole package resolution just works. The exception to this rule is packages that use their path to find other packages or work against a root directory. Since the physical location of the packages is global, and therefore different from the project’s location, these approaches do not work with pnpm.

Installing packages...