Pnpm

pnpm, or Performant Node Package Manager, is one of the main JavaScript package managers,^[2] developed in 2016 by Zoltan Kochan for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment.^[3] It focuses on being a disk space-efficient alternative to npm.^[4][5]

pnpm

Developer(s)	Various
Initial release	21 August 2016; 8 years ago (2016-08-21)
Stable release	10.6.0[1]  / 6 March 2025; 2 months ago (6 March 2025)
Repository	github.com/pnpm/pnpm
Written in	TypeScript, JavaScript
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Package manager
License	MIT License
Website	pnpm.io

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Bun
• Yarn