7 engineers on Hacker News describe using pnpm first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I abandoned their stack because TS, ZOD, pnpm are a very fragile hard to debug or understand combination”
regret · production · _the_inflator · 2026-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use PNPM and are very happy with it, even if it's not as fast as Bun's package manager.”
endorse · production · kabirgoel · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched on our projects a while back and haven't looked back.”
endorse · production · afavour · 2025-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using pnpm as my daily driver for several years, and am still waiting for npm to add a symlink option.”
endorse · personal · sam_goody · 2025-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched already to pnpm and won't look back.”
endorse · production · solatic · 2023-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pnpm also helped us solve issues with packages in our monorepo importing dependencies declared in other packages”
endorse · production · keyworks · 2022-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it should run `pnpm test:unit` instead `npx jest` - it gets it wrong every time.”
neutral · production · _pdp_ · 2026-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?