As someone who mostly works in Java it continues to floor me that this isn’t the default. Why does every project I work on need an identical copy of possibly hundreds of packages if they’re the same version?

I also like Yarn pnp’s model of leaving node_modules as zip files. CPUs are way faster than storage, they can decompress on the fly. Less disk space at rest, less disk slack, less filesystem bookkeeping.

Every single filesystem is way faster at dealing with one file than dozens/hundreds. Now multiply that by the the hundreds if does, it add up.

I just installed a project with pnpm about 120 packages mostly react/webpack/eslint/redux related

with prod env: 700MB

without prod env: 900MB

sadly the bloat cannot be avoided that well :/