I don’t disagree it has a lot of advantages but I’m not sure our project size is big enough to warrant it. I want to keep the repo as friendly as possible to newcomers. For CI/CD we have node module caching and for devs ultimately we are talking about 20 seconds on first install. I also suspect as we start upgrading things modern dependencies will install faster.

Sure, I respect that and we can always revisit this later. I've found the opposite with using modern dependencies, that you end up needing more and larger packages which take longer to install. As you see from the file changes, it's dead simple to change the package manager later if we choose to. In the mean time here's some more technical information comparing the performance of npm, yarn and pnpm: https://refine.dev/blog/pnpm-vs-npm-and-yarn/#why-not-npm-or-yarn

Sure, I respect that and we can always revisit this later. I've found the opposite with using modern dependencies, that you end up needing more and larger packages which take longer to install. As you see from the file changes, it's dead simple to change the package manager later if we choose to. In the mean time here's some more technical information comparing the performance of npm, yarn and pnpm: https://refine.dev/blog/pnpm-vs-npm-and-yarn/#why-not-npm-or-yarn

Let me review this, thank you for sharing. I didn't know about corepack either. Let's keep it open and revisit soon.

Closing this as it would be more trouble than it's worth to fix the merge conflicts. We can revisit pnpm in the future