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How to migrate a project from npm to pnpm

We have built a project with a deep tree of dependencies with npm install and have a lot of issues under Microsoft Windows (secondary target).

I have read about pnpm and it seems to be a solution for us.

How to migrate our nested repository?

Build a new one from scratch, using pnpm?

Solution

  • Finally, I have made a backup of node_modules and rebuilt it from scratch with pnpm and added concat to have only one JavaScript source and applied Google-compiler to it.

    The only difficulty was about bootstrap because it has changed a lot in two years. We need to keep the old look of it, so the command I used is pnpm install bootstrap@3.3.7.

    After completion, the look and feel was identical but node_modules has grew from 8 MB to 12 MB...