Node-Modules & Hoisting Settings

node_modules settings#

modulesDir#

• Default: node_modules
• Type: path

The directory in which dependencies will be installed (instead of node_modules).

nodeLinker#

• Default: isolated
• Type: isolated, hoisted, pnp

Define qué enlazador debe usarse para instalar paquetes de Node.

• isolated - dependencies are symlinked from a virtual store at node_modules/.pnpm.
• hoisted - a flat node_modules without symlinks is created. Same as the node_modules created by npm or Yarn Classic. Una de las bibliotecas de Yarn se usa para elevar, cuando se usa esta configuración. Razones legítimas para usar esta configuración:
  1. Su herramienta no funciona bien con enlaces simbólicos.
  2. Su proyecto se implementa en un proveedor de alojamiento sin servidor. Algunos proveedores sin servidor (por ejemplo, AWS Lambda) no admiten enlaces simbólicos. Una solución alternativa para este problema es empaquetar la aplicación antes del despliegue.
  3. If you want to publish your package with "bundledDependencies".
  4. If you are running Node.js with the --preserve-symlinks flag.
• pnp - no node_modules. Plug'n'Play is an innovative strategy for Node that is used by Yarn Berry. It is recommended to also set symlink setting to false when using pnp as your linker.

nodeExperimentalPackageMap#

Agregado en: v11.8.0

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

When true, pnpm writes node_modules/.package-map.json during isolated and hoisted installs and injects it into pnpm-managed Node.js script environments by adding Node's --experimental-package-map option to NODE_OPTIONS.

Nothing reads the map without this setting, so pnpm does not write one. An install that stops writing the map also removes one an earlier install left.

CLI and environment configuration use the kebab-case name node-experimental-package-map.

nodeExperimentalPackageMap: true

nodePackageMapType#

Agregado en: v11.8.0

• Default: standard
• Type: standard, loose

Controls how node_modules/.package-map.json is generated.

• standard - only declared dependencies are available through the package map.
• loose - also maps packages that are reachable through the installed node_modules layout, which can allow undeclared hoisted dependencies to resolve.

CLI and environment configuration use the kebab-case name node-package-map-type.

nodePackageMapType: loose

symlink#

• Default: true
• Type: Boolean

When symlink is set to false, pnpm creates a virtual store directory without any symlinks. It is a useful setting together with nodeLinker=pnp.

enableModulesDir#

• Default: true
• Type: Boolean

When false, pnpm will not write any files to the modules directory (node_modules). This is useful for when the modules directory is mounted with filesystem in userspace (FUSE). There is an experimental CLI that allows you to mount a modules directory with FUSE: @pnpm/mount-modules.

confirmModulesPurge#

• Default: true
• Type: Boolean

Controls whether pnpm asks for confirmation before removing the contents of an incompatible modules directory and reinstalling it from scratch. When false, pnpm recreates the modules directory without prompting. In CI, confirmation is disabled automatically. If confirmation is enabled without a TTY and CI is not detected, pnpm aborts with ERR_PNPM_ABORTED_REMOVE_MODULES_DIR_NO_TTY.

virtualStoreDir#

• Default: node_modules/.pnpm
• Types: path

El directorio con enlaces a la tienda. Todas las dependencias directas e indirectas del proyecto están vinculadas a este directorio.

Dependencies installed from a URL or local path get a hash suffix on their directory name when the part after the scheme contains +, #, :, ?, or another character that is not allowed in file names. This keeps distinct URLs in separate directories.

Esta es una configuración útil que puede resolver problemas con rutas largas en Windows. If you have some dependencies with very long paths, you can select a virtual store in the root of your drive (for instance C:\my-project-store).

Or you can set the virtual store to .pnpm and add it to .gitignore. Este hará que los seguimientos de pila sean más limpios, ya que las rutas a las dependencias estarán un directorio más arriba.

NOTE: the virtual store cannot be shared between several projects. Cada proyecto debe tener su propio alamcenamiento virtual (excepto en los espacios de trabajo donde se comparte la raíz).

virtualStoreDirMaxLength#

• Por defecto
  • On Linux/macOS: 120
  • On Windows: 60
• Types: number

Sets the maximum allowed length of directory names inside the virtual store directory (node_modules/.pnpm). You may set this to a lower number if you encounter long path issues on Windows.

virtualStoreOnly#

Agregado en: v11.0.0

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

When set to true, pnpm populates the virtual store without creating importer symlinks, hoisting, bin links, or running lifecycle scripts. This is useful for pre-populating a store (e.g., in Nix builds) without creating unnecessary project-level artifacts. pnpm fetch uses this mode internally.

packageImportMethod#

• Default: auto
• Type: auto, hardlink, copy, clone, clone-or-copy

Controls the way packages are imported from the store (if you want to disable symlinks inside node_modules, then you need to change the nodeLinker setting, not this one).

• auto - try to clone packages from the store. Si no se admite la clonación entonces vincula los paquetes del almacenamiento. Si ni la clonación ni la vinculación son posibles, vuelva a copiar
• hardlink - hard link packages from the store
• clone-or-copy - try to clone packages from the store. Si no se admite la clonación, vuelva a copiar
• copy - copy packages from the store
• clone - clone (AKA copy-on-write or reference link) packages from the store

La clonación es la mejor manera de escribir paquetes en node_modules. Es la forma más rápida y segura. Cuando se usa la clonación, puede editar archivos en sus node_modules y no se modificarán en el almacenamiento central de contenido direccionable.

Desafortunadamente, no todos los sistemas de archivos admiten la clonación. Recomendamos utilizar un sistema de archivos de copia en escritura (CoW) (por ejemplo, Btrfs en lugar de Ext4 en Linux) para obtener la mejor experiencia con pnpm.

modulesCacheMaxAge#

• Default: 10080 (7 days in minutes)
• Type: number

El tiempo en minutos después del cual se deben eliminar los paquetes huérfanos del directorio de módulos. pnpm mantiene un caché de paquetes en el directorio de módulos. Esto aumenta la velocidad de instalación al cambiar de o degradar dependencias.

dlxCacheMaxAge#

• Default: 1440 (1 day in minutes)
• Type: number

The time in minutes after which dlx cache expires. After executing a dlx command, pnpm keeps a cache that omits the installation step for subsequent calls to the same dlx command.

virtualStoreType#

Added in: v11.23.0

• Default: project
• Type: project, global

Names where the virtual store lives: one store per project, or one store per machine.

virtualStoreType: global

project is the default layout: every project gets its own virtual store inside node_modules/.pnpm. global is the global virtual store: a single store shared by every project on the machine, with each project's node_modules holding only symlinks into it.

This is the canonical spelling of enableGlobalVirtualStore, which keeps working; when a project sets both, virtualStoreType wins. It can also be set through the PNPM_CONFIG_VIRTUAL_STORE_TYPE env variable and read back with pnpm config get virtualStoreType.

The setting is independent of nodeLinker: isolated and pnp both work with either store type, and hoisted writes no virtual store at all, so it is unaffected.

enableGlobalVirtualStore#

Agregado en: v10.12.1

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

When enabled, node_modules contains only symlinks to a central virtual store, rather than to node_modules/.pnpm. By default, this central store is located at <store-path>/links (use pnpm store path to find <store-path>).

In the central virtual store, each package is hard linked into a directory whose name is the hash of its dependency graph. As a result, all projects on the system can symlink their dependencies from this shared location on disk. This approach is conceptually similar to how NixOS manages packages, using dependency graph hashes to create isolated and shareable package directories in the Nix store.

This should not be confused with the global content-addressable store. The actual package files are still hard linked from the content-addressable store, but instead of being linked directly into node_modules/.pnpm, they are linked into the global virtual store.

Using a global virtual store can speed up installations when a warm cache is available. However, in CI environments (where caches are typically absent), it may slow down installation. If pnpm detects that it is running in CI and this setting is not set, the global virtual store is off.

Dependency hoisting settings#

hoist#

• Default: true
• Type: boolean

When true, all dependencies are hoisted to node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules. This makes unlisted dependencies accessible to all packages inside node_modules.

hoistPattern#

• Default: ['*']
• Type: string[]

Tells pnpm which packages should be hoisted to node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules. De predeterminada, todos los paquetes se elevan; sin embargo, si sabe que solo algunos paquetes tienen dependencias fantasmas, puede usar esta opción para elevar las dependencias fantasmas (recomendado).

Por ejemplo:

hoistPattern:
- "*eslint*"
- "*babel*"

You may also exclude patterns from hoisting using !.

Por ejemplo:

hoistPattern:
- "*types*"
- "!@types/react"

In a workspace, the pattern is matched against the names of the workspace projects too, unless hoistWorkspacePackages is turned off.

publicHoistPattern#

• Default: []
• Type: string[]

Unlike hoistPattern, which hoists dependencies to a hidden modules directory inside the virtual store, publicHoistPattern hoists dependencies matching the pattern to the root modules directory. Elevar al directorio de módulos raíz significa que el código de la aplicación tendrá acceso a las dependencias fantasma, incluso si modifican la estrategia de resolución de manera incorrecta.

Esta configuración es útil cuando se trata de algunas herramientas conectables defectuosas que resuelven las dependencias correctamente.

Por ejemplo:

publicHoistPattern:
- "*plugin*"

Note: Setting shamefullyHoist to true is the same as setting publicHoistPattern to *.

You may also exclude patterns from hoisting using !.

Por ejemplo:

publicHoistPattern:
- "*types*"
- "!@types/react"

In a workspace, the pattern is matched against the names of the workspace projects too, unless hoistWorkspacePackages is turned off.

hoistWorkspacePackages#

• Default: true
• Type: boolean

When true, the projects of the workspace are hoisting candidates too, not only the packages that come from a registry.

hoistPattern and publicHoistPattern then decide where each project lands, exactly as they do for a registry dependency. publicHoistPattern is checked first, so a project matching both patterns goes to the root only:

• A project whose name matches publicHoistPattern is symlinked into <workspace_root>/node_modules.
• A project whose name matches only hoistPattern is symlinked into <workspace_root>/node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules.
• A project whose name matches neither is not hoisted.

Because hoistPattern defaults to ['*'] and publicHoistPattern to [], the default is that every workspace project is symlinked into <workspace_root>/node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules.

This is how a tool that resolves packages by name from the workspace root finds a project of the workspace. The usual case is ESLint loading a plugin that is developed in the same monorepo:

publicHoistPattern:
  - "*eslint*"

With that setting, a workspace project named eslint-plugin-acme appears at <workspace_root>/node_modules/eslint-plugin-acme, even if no package.json lists it as a dependency.

Details worth knowing:

• A project is matched by the name in its package.json, not by its directory name.
• Every project of the workspace is a candidate, including a project that nothing else depends on. The workspace root project is never hoisted.
• The symlink points at the project's own directory in the workspace, so there is nothing to keep in sync.
• A direct dependency wins a name conflict. If a package with the same name is a direct dependency of any workspace project, that package is hoisted and the workspace project is not. Frozen installs preserve this choice even when the dependency is unchanged.
• The setting only adds candidates. When hoistPattern and publicHoistPattern are both empty, nothing is hoisted at all, workspace projects included. Setting hoist to false empties hoistPattern.

shamefullyHoist#

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

By default, pnpm creates a semistrict node_modules, meaning dependencies have access to undeclared dependencies but modules outside of node_modules do not. Con este diseño, la mayoría de los paquetes del ecosistema funcionan sin problemas. However, if some tooling only works when the hoisted dependencies are in the root of node_modules, you can set this to true to hoist them for you.

hoistingLimits#

Agregado en: v11.5.0

• Default: none
• Type: none, workspaces, dependencies

Controls how far dependencies are hoisted when using nodeLinker: hoisted. This setting mirrors Yarn's nmHoistingLimits.

• none - hoist as far as possible (the default).
• workspaces - hoist only as far as each workspace package, preventing dependencies from being hoisted above the workspace package that depends on them.
• dependencies - hoist only up to each workspace package's direct dependencies, preventing transitive dependencies from being hoisted into the workspace package's node_modules.