[Feature request] Can I get a support to use pnpm instead of npm and yarn?

faizan · December 29, 2021, 8:27pm

Can I get a support to use pnpm instead of npm and yarn? This is what I use in most of my projects

ashok · December 29, 2021, 8:35pm

Hello Faizan,
Welcome to Cleavr forum and thanks for reaching out.

We have thought about adding support for PNPM but haven’t really got much request to have it supported. But there is first for everything, right?

I’ve heard great things about pnpm so we are going to seriously think about supporting it as an alternative to npm and yarn but that might take some time. In the meantime, you might be able to make it work by aliasing it manually. Here are some pointers:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/adeluccar/d7ffd5381efa9192f06ede6435ab065f

pnpm.zsh

#! /bin/zsh -f
disable which # builtin
alias -g i=install

pnpm () { command pnpm $@ --config ${NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG:-~/.npmrc} }

if (which -s pnpm) npm () {
  NODE_BIN=`brew --prefix node`/bin
  export PATH=$PATH:$NODE_BIN

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gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/danielbayley/62a3076902f664391b1cfbcd09d78918

pnpm.command

#! /bin/zsh --no-rcs --err-exit
export PATH=node_modules/.bin:$PATH

alias -g i=install

if (($+commands[pnpm])) then
  local p=p
  alias pnpm=npm npx=pnpx
  # FIXME https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/1360
  npm config get -g global-dir | read

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Please let us know if you made it to work for now.

faizan · December 29, 2021, 9:39pm

Too advanced for me to understand. I’ll leave it now

romanw · July 10, 2025, 4:47pm

Any news how to use pnpm instead npm? Will pnpm be supportet in the near future?

wfc · November 8, 2025, 8:41am

Lack on pnpm support is unfortunately a deal breaker in '25 (almost '26)

anish · December 25, 2025, 10:38am

Hi everyone,

We have a Christmas gift from Team Cleavr for all our valued users.

PNPM is now supported in Cleavr.

To use PNPM with your projects, please ensure that:

Your project is configured to use PNPM and includes a committed pnpm-lock.yaml file.
Other lock files such as package-lock.json , yarn.lock , or bun.lockb are removed from the project root to avoid conflicts.

Once the above points are confirmed, you can update the build command in Cleavr to use PNPM.

That is all. PNPM will be used for your next deployment, Cleavr will configure PNPM automatically on existing and new servers.