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WAPM vs pnpm: What are the differences?
WAPM: The WebAssembly Package Manager. The wapm client can install packages, manage WebAssembly dependencies, and expose WebAssembly behavior with commands; pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager. It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.
WAPM and pnpm can be categorized as "Package Managers" tools.
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- Uses less disk space3
- Works as a Node.js package manager2
- Has CLI auto-completion1
- Has a nice UI1
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What is pnpm?
It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.
What is WAPM?
The wapm client can install packages, manage WebAssembly dependencies, and expose WebAssembly behavior with commands.
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npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
Yarn
Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.
Lerna
It is a popular and widely used package written in JavaScript. It optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package repositories with git and npm.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.