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PNPM is a faster and disk-space-saving package manager for JavaScript that uses a symlink strategy to share dependencies across projects. It manages different dependency versions efficiently, saving disk space by reusing common files. While it's gaining popularity for its performance benefits, the decision to switch from NPM remains a personal choice.

Why PNPM? WTF?

new day - new package manager for js
Don’t worry, Js. Someday they will create something good and stable, like NuGet, Composer, Maven, Cargo, Pub, etc.

What I love is one awesome command that we don’t have with npm:
pnpm up - - latest
Upgrading all dependencies to latest versions, even major

I really hoped to read something new that I didn’t know about pnpm yet. After reading the post I discovered that you didn’t get further than the home page of <a href="http://pnpm.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">pnpm.io</a>

I switched a few months ago. So much easier and less headaches. NPM… It’s not me, it’s you.