How to switch from NPM/Yarn to PNPM

If you wonder why many people switch to PNPM, let this image tell you

If you wonder why to switch from NPM/Yarn to PNPM, let this image tell you

I think you know now. let's start with installing PNPM

$ npm install -g pnpm

After you have installed it, Now let’s remove the old node_modules

$ rm -rf node_module

Replace the package manager to pnpm with this command

$ pnpm import

and the useless *-lock.json file depends on witch file you have in your project e.g. (package-lock.json yarn-lock.json)

// remove yarn-lock and package-lock.json
$ rm -rf yarn.lock yarn-lock.json package-lock.json

And then reinstall the dependency

$ pnpm install

Now you can run your project with thepnpm like $ pnpm start or whatever you set in the package.json

Using a shorter alias

pnpm might be hard to type, so you may use a shorter alias like pn instead. Just put the following line to your .bashrc, .zshrc, or config.fish:

alias pn=pnpm

https://pnpm.io/installation#using-a-shorter-alias