--- title: "Choosing the Right Package Manager: NPM, Yarn, or PNPM?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm--jdcw6d10c source_url: https://hackernoon.com/choosing-the-right-package-manager-npm-yarn-or-pnpm?source=rss type: article source: "Hacker Noon" published: 2023-09-14T16:17:40.416Z updated: 2026-05-07T02:12:46.975Z tags: ["npm", "pnpm", "webdev", "yarn"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: 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: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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)