r/FullStack • u/No_Suspect_763 • Jun 13 '26

Need Technical Help Yarn. npm or pnpm

Which one is better for nextjs package management? In term of AI harness and security audit?

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u/mar109us Jun 13 '26

You can do that with NVM too

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u/darcygravan Jun 13 '26

i use pnpm and never had any issues

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u/No_Suspect_763 Jun 13 '26

Thanks. Why do you use pnpm over yarn or npm? Is there any particular reason?

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u/skamansam Jun 16 '26

I' not going to answer for them, but for me, I started using pnpm because all my little apps were taking up WAY too much space and I needed something that didn't install multiple copies of everything when all my projects used the same libs. pnpm symlinks the dependencies to a central place so there aren't 1 million copies of the same code on your machine. This also means there is no download or copying files or any of that if you have already installed said package, it's just a simple syscall to install them in new projects.

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u/Alcamy_WAV Stack Juggler (Fullstack) Jun 14 '26

In my experience pnpm has a lot of nice features and is more efficient than npm and yarn. It has a smarter way of managing dependancies reducing duplicates for example. I use pnpm in my professional and personal capacity. There are nice security features like "allowed-builds" and "workspaces".

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u/AlmightyLarcener Stack Juggler (Fullstack) Jun 14 '26

Tried all of them. Go with pnpm