Nix vs pnpm
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It makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments. | It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed. |
| - | Fast. As fast as npm and Yarn;
Efficient. One version of a package is saved only ever once on a disk;
Great for multi-package repositories (a.k.a. monorepos); See the recursive commands;
Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its package.json;
Deterministic. Has a lockfile called pnpm-lock.yaml;
Works everywhere. Works on Windows, Linux and OS X;
Aliases. Install different versions of the same package or import it using a different name. |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 15.4K | GitHub Stars 33.1K |
GitHub Forks 1.8K | GitHub Forks 1.2K |
Stacks 598 | Stacks 338 |
Followers 112 | Followers 103 |
Votes 0 | Votes 11 |
Pros & Cons | |
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fpm
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