This sounds similar to PNPM: https://pnpm.io/ https://pnpm.io/. You still get a node_modules folder but it just has symlinks into the global cache. Ot was basic

This sounds similar to PNPM: https://pnpm.io/ https://pnpm.io/. You still get a node_modules folder but it just has symlinks into the global cache. Ot was basically a drop-in replacement (minus the need for —shamefully-hoist on our install) and ended up being faster to install and build