Version: 6.x

Installation

Using a standalone script#

curl -f https://get.pnpm.io/v6.js | node - add --global pnpm

On Windows (PowerShell):

(Invoke-WebRequest 'https://get.pnpm.io/v6.js' -UseBasicParsing).Content | node - add --global pnpm

The standalone script is signed. Here's how to verify it.

npm install -g pnpm

npx pnpm add -g pnpm

Once you have installed pnpm, there is no need to use other package managers to update it. You can upgrade pnpm using itself, like so:

pnpm add -g pnpm

Do you wanna use pnpm on CI servers? See: Continuous Integration.

Here is a list of past pnpm versions with respective Node.js version support.

Node.js	pnpm 1	pnpm 2	pnpm 3	pnpm 4	pnpm 5	pnpm 6
Node.js 4	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Node.js 6	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌
Node.js 8	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	❌
Node.js 10	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌
Node.js 12	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Node.js 14	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Node.js 16	?	?	?️	?️	?️	✔️