Actually, I have written an article about this when the feature was added to pnpm: Why package managers need hook systems (https://medium.com/pnpm/why-package-m

Actually, I have written an article about this when the feature was added to pnpm: Why package managers need hook systems (https://medium.com/pnpm/why-package-managers-need-hook-systems-b8125d8b3dc7 https://medium.com/pnpm/why-package-managers-need-hook-syste...). Also, soon pnpm will support aliases and that will make the hook system even more powerful