Consider migrating to pnpm

[bennypowers]

pnpm is the performant node package manager. It bills itself as a drop-in replacement for the npm cli.

It works by keeping a single disk cache for all packages, by version, and linking them into the node_modules directory, thus saving disk space and bandwidth.

pnpm supports workspaces i.e. monorepos, however the config file is non-standard (workspaces support does not confirm to npm cli's API)

PNPM recommends changesets for publishing

Questions

We'll need to clarify the following before accepting pnpm for this project:

• how well does it work with nvm
• windows and wsl support
• implications for ci
• are there any known issues for pnpm+changesets