pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript

Re:pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Java... by zkochan on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:42PM (#30923108)

It is unrelated because you don't have this issue with pnpm. pnpm uses a central content-addressable store and each unique file is written only once on a disk. It doesn't matter in how many projects you install the same dependency.

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Re:pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Java... by topaz0 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:17PM (#30927725)

I think GP was amazed by the sheer number of dependencies, not by the how many of them are duplicated. It also amazes me. People talking above about having 10s of GB of dependencies. Crazy to me.

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Re:pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Java... by crispyalmond on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:21AM (#30928444)

This amazes me as well. At work we have a simple website which has 1 GB of node_modules and the actual source code is well under a megabyte.

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Re:pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Java... by bavell on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:02AM (#30928664)

I'm very curious to know how in the world a node_modules directory can grow above 1GB! Which dependencies are the worst offenders? Is it dominated by a few huge deps?

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