- Closes #11483. - `@pnpm/exe@11.x` was packing `dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp`, `dist/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp.cmd`, and `dist/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js` with mode `0644` instead of `0755`. Any install whose lifecycle script invokes `node-gyp rebuild` while pnpm has prepended `dist/node-gyp-bin/` to `PATH` failed with `sh: 1: node-gyp: Permission denied` — most visibly via `pnpm/action-setup@v6`'s standalone path on GitHub Actions runners with system Node < 22.13. - The regular `pnpm` package's `package.json` already declares `publishConfig.executableFiles` for these three shims, which `pnpm publish` honors by packing matching tar entries with mode `0755` (see `releasing/commands/src/publish/pack.ts:273` and the `bins`-driven mode selection at `pack.ts:360-361`). `@pnpm/exe`'s `package.json` was missing the same field, so the shims it copies from `pnpm/dist/` shipped with `0644`. This PR mirrors the field into `@pnpm/exe`. - To prevent the two manifests from drifting again, meta-updater is now the single source of truth for the executable-files list and writes it into both `pnpm/package.json` and `pnpm/artifacts/exe/package.json`.
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- Fast. Up to 2x faster than the alternatives (see benchmark).
- Efficient. Files inside
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- Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its
package.json. - Deterministic. Has a lockfile called
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- Works everywhere. Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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Background
pnpm uses a content-addressable filesystem to store all files from all module directories on a disk. When using npm, if you have 100 projects using lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be stored in a content-addressable storage, so:
- If you depend on different versions of lodash, only the files that differ are added to the store.
If lodash has 100 files, and a new version has a change only in one of those files,
pnpm updatewill only add 1 new file to the storage. - All the files are saved in a single place on the disk. When packages are installed, their files are linked from that single place consuming no additional disk space. Linking is performed using either hard-links or reflinks (copy-on-write).
As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations!
If you'd like more details about the unique node_modules structure that pnpm creates and
why it works fine with the Node.js ecosystem, read this small article: Flat node_modules is not the only way.
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Benchmark
pnpm is up to 2x faster than npm and Yarn classic. See all benchmarks here.
Benchmarks on an app with lots of dependencies: