dev.to doesn't support mermaid diagrams. You can read article with diagrams on my blog Introduction Somewhere on my developer's path, I found myself having a zoo of node versions, package managers and tools, like nvm , npm , pnpm , yarn , corepack just to name a few. And the issue was, that I had no idea how they are related to each other and what are the differences between npm , pnpm and yarn . I dived deeper into this topic and ended up with opionated takes on how to manage node / js development environments. Use pnpm instead of npm or yarn npm is built-in package manager, that comes with a node out-of-the-box. Most of "quick starts" mention npm install <package> and it is the first choice for beginner developers. However, it has fundamental flaws and zero reasons to be used as your default package manager. The major issue of npm is its tremendous hunger for disk space. Imagine a Margaret, full-stack engineer, working with JavaScript.…