Recommend installation through Volta

[muuvmuuv]

I am using Volta now for several months, and it's an amazing and superfast alternative to nvm. Even more it can install packages globally directly without using something like npm --global through volta install pnpm. I think it would be nice to recommend that to users in the installation part of the website; installing Volta for Node version management and pnpm with Volta itself.

What do you think about it?

[zkochan]

Volta doesn't seem to support pnpm currently. I see only Yarn in its docs.

[muuvmuuv]

I was able to install pnpm through Volta I guess just pinning and choosing a version does not work. Would love those two integrating each other properly :)

[kamalhm]

Hi @muuvmuuv do you mind telling me what steps required to able to use pnpm on volta?

[muuvmuuv]

@kamalhm sure ^^ you can install every NPM cli tool this way:

volta install pnpm

[kamalhm]

@muuvmuuv wait it's that simple? Is this information available in the docs? because I dont think I ever found it

[zkochan]

Our current plan is to make pnpm also a Node.js version manager, so it will be basically a replacement to Volta.

See the related discussions:

• Using pnpm as a Node.js version manager
• Use a Rust wrapper over the Node.js CLI

[vnys]

@muuvmuuv wait it's that simple? Is this information available in the docs? because I dont think I ever found it

You can’t pin the version though, that’s still not supported as far as I can tell.

[mikrostew]

I have an RFC up for adding pnpm support to Volta: volta-cli/rfcs#46, and I welcome any feedback from this community as we work on getting this implemented!

[muuvmuuv]

Since pnpm does now support installing different node versions directly, I no longer need Volta and because @zkochan is no longer interested (for reasons, see corepack) I will close this.