I'd recommend pnpm over npm for monorepos. Forcing you to be explicit about each package's dependencies is good.

I found npm's workspace features lacking in comparison and sparsely documented. It was also hard to find advice on the internet. I got the sense nobody was using npm workspaces for anything other than beginner articles.

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threetonesun 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

In the context of what we're talking about here, using the default package manger to install a different package manger as a dependency has never quite sat right with me.

And npm workspaces is certainly "lacking features" compared to NX, but in terms of making `npm link` for local packages easier and running scripts across packages it does fine.

	▲	crabmusket 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, I've found the experience of getting pnpm quite irritating/confusing. Corepack doesn't seem to work the way I would want it to, either.

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dboreham 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

After 10 years or so enduring the endless cycle of "new thing to replace npm", I'm using: npm. And I'm not creating monorepos.

	▲	crabmusket 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was happily using npm until I outgrew it. pnpm seemed the smallest step towards what I needed after having evaluated nx, moonrepo etc.