pnpm

The problem: Each dev container that uses Npm or Yarn as package managers has to download all the “node_modules”, plus some transient ones, for each container where those files take quite a lot of disk space and time to download. The Solution: Set up a dev container with Pnpm and a global shared packages store with the host system. This approach eliminates the need to duplicate files. It saves significant network resources and time by reusing all the files that other dev containers or the host machine have already downloaded into the global store. [Read More]