pacquet

Experimental package manager for node.js written in rust.

TODO

• .npmrc support (for supported features readme.md)
• CLI commands (for supported features readme.md)
• Content addressable file store support
• Shrink-file support in sync with pnpm-lock.yml
  • Frozen lockfile
  • Update outdated lockfile
  • Creating lockfile
• Workspace support
• Full sync with pnpm error codes
• Generate a node_modules/.bin folder
• Add CLI report

Debugging

TRACE=pacquet_tarball just cli add fastify

Testing

# Install necessary dependencies
just install

# Start a mocked registry server (optional)
just registry-mock launch

# Run test
just test

Benchmarking

Install between multiple revisions

First, you to start a local registry server, such as verdaccio:

verdaccio

Then, you can use the script named integrated-benchmark to run the various benchmark, For example:

# Comparing the branch you're working on against main
just integrated-benchmark --scenario=frozen-lockfile my-branch main

# Comparing current commit against the previous commit
just integrated-benchmark --scenario=frozen-lockfile HEAD HEAD~

# Comparing pacquet of current commit against pnpm
just integrated-benchmark --scenario=frozen-lockfile --with-pnpm HEAD

# Comparing pacquet of current commit, pacquet of main, and pnpm against each other
just integrated-benchmark --scenario=frozen-lockfile --with-pnpm HEAD main

# See more options
just integrated-benchmark --help