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    pnpm

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    #61 this week

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager

    backend
    dependency-manager
    install
    javascript
    modules
    node
    Rust
    MIT
    36.9K stars
    2.0K forks
    36.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 23, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #61 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 2%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 460 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #42 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 30, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast and disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript and Node.js projects.
    • Saves significant disk space by using a content-addressable storage and linking files instead of duplicating them.
    • Use for managing dependencies in large monorepos to optimize installation speed and storage.
    • Use for projects requiring strict dependency access control to ensure packages only access declared dependencies.
    • Use for cross-platform development environments on Windows, Linux, and macOS with consistent, deterministic installs.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager:

    To quote the Rush team:

    Microsoft uses pnpm in Rush repos with hundreds of projects and hundreds of PRs per day, and we’ve found it to be very fast and reliable.

    Excerpt from the pnpm/pnpm README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 26: +1Aug 5: +21Aug 6: +3Aug 16: +11Aug 31: +11Sep 1: +22Sep 2: +20Sep 3: +20Sep 4: +14Sep 5: +16Sep 6: +19Sep 7: +17Sep 8: +4Sep 9: +6Sep 10: +9Sep 11: +11Sep 12: +14Sep 13: +12Sep 14: +9Sep 15: +7Sep 16: +6Sep 17: +14Sep 18: +6Sep 19: +7Sep 20: +14Sep 21: +15Sep 22: +9Sep 23: +21Sep 24: +3Sep 27: +19Sep 28: +16Oct 2: +3Oct 3: +9Oct 4: +0

    +1,028 stars over 90 days across 42 snapshot days; best day +22 on Sep 1.

    Forks

    2.0K+354

    Open issues

    200-2.3K

    Compared with peers in Backend

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