Comparing PNPM, NPM and Yarn. Looking at what each one offers and what differentiates one from the other.
An alternative to NPM and the newest package manager, it’s built ontop of NPM.
Performance and disk efficiency: Three times faster and more efficent than NPM; both cold and hot cache, it’s also faster than Yarn.
Security: Some security vulnerabilities that have affect projects
Structure of projects: Doesn’t create a flattened dependency tree, in node_modules everything has it’s own package.json
The standard/default package manager when it comes to JavaScript/Node.js applications.
Performance and disk efficiency: Slightly slower than PNPM
Security: Does checksums and verifies integrity of code
Structure of projects: You can manually add a .npmrc file at root level
Package manager developed by Facebook, which at one point was faster, more reliable and secure than NPM.
Performance and disk efficiency: A little faster than NPM as it installs packages parallely and uses flatten node_modules directory
Security: Checksums stored in yarn.lock and prevents you from installing malicious packages
Structure of projects: You can manually add a .yarnrc file at root level and it also will recognise a .npmrc file