pnpm, or Performant Node Package Manager, is one of the main
JavaScript
JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior.
Web browsers have ...
package manager
A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner.
A package manager deals wi ...
s, developed in 2016 by Zoltan Kochan for the
Node.js JavaScript
runtime environment
In computer programming, a runtime system or runtime environment is a sub-system that exists in the computer where a program is created, as well as in the computers where the program is intended to be run. The name comes from the compile time ...
. It focuses on being a disk space-efficient alternative to
npm.
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Bun
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Yarn
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JavaScript programming tools
Free package management systems
Free software programmed in TypeScript
Software using the MIT license