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title: "pnpm"
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quadrant: tools
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[pnpm](https://pnpm.io/motivation) is an alternative tool to manage your frontend dependencies. Unlike yarn 1 it manages all packages in a central place and
creates symbolic links only inside the npm_modules of a project. This results in considerably less usage of disk space and reduces build-times, when a package
is already available.

Additionally a cache server can be setup and used during pipeline builds to decrease network traffic and build times.