Bluebeam is some PDF editing software (mostly used for architectural drawings) that calls its PDF combining feature the "stapler".

... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though.

Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it.

[1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler

Yarn provides a "Plug'n'Play" mode implementing exactly this behavior.

Dependencies are kept as compressed archives and a loader file is generated so Node can read them directly. If you start Node through Yarn (`yarn node main.js`), it automatically passes the correct flags, but you can also do it manually (something like `node -r .pnp.cjs --experimental-loader .pnp.loader.mjs main.js`).

Overall I found this mode to work pretty good. I'm using it for a medium-sized Angular (+ TypeScript) project. It also noticeably improves install times. The PnP mode is stricter about dependencies and expects dependencies to be readonly. A couple dependencies may need to be marked as "unplugged" (installed a regular decompressed dependencies) as a workaround.

I'd recommend using this mode if you can.