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Have you seen pnpm[0]? Has some similarities. > Files inside node_modules are cloned or hard linked from a single content-addressable storage Also (IIRC, it's

Have you seen pnpm[0]? Has some similarities. > Files inside node_modules are cloned or hard linked from a single content-addressable storage Also (IIRC, it's been a long while) it's lockfile contains enough information to translate it directly to a Nix derivation[1]. [0]: https://pnpm.io/ https://pnpm.io/ [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/pnpm2nix https://github.com/nix-community/pnpm2nix

pxc 4y ago
They're talking about a frontend for Nix that uses a simple subcommand interface with a UX focus, but which is about Nix, not seeking a Nix-like backend for NPM. (I misread their comment the same way as you did the first time :)