--- title: Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM? description: PNPM is a drop-in replacement for npm and is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor. It is highly disk efficient and solves inherent issues in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM? | daily.dev og:description: PNPM is a drop-in replacement for npm and is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor. It is highly disk efficient and solves inherent issues in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JDcw6D10C.png og:image:alt: Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM? **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PNPM is a drop-in replacement for npm and is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor. It is highly disk efficient and solves inherent issues in npm. In this article, we will explain how it works and why it is a perfect replacement for NPM or yarn. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#npm](https://daily.dev/tags/npm), [#pnpm](https://daily.dev/tags/pnpm), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#yarn](https://daily.dev/tags/yarn) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c"},"datePublished":"2023-09-14T16:17:40.416Z","dateModified":"2026-05-07T02:12:46.975Z","description":"PNPM is a drop-in replacement for npm and is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor. It is highly disk efficient and solves inherent issues in...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/62b31de0feae6ab2357fb8b2e94f3ce5?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/62b31de0feae6ab2357fb8b2e94f3ce5?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker Noon","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker Noon","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hackernoon","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"npm,pnpm,webdev,yarn","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker Noon","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM?"}]} ```