Should include Corepack in our recommendation?

[goldbergyoni]

You mentioned Corepack as a tool that should get a mention along nvm/volta, should we indeed given that its 'beta' and has some npm support issues?

https://nodejs.org/api/corepack.html

@elektronik2k5

[elektronik2k5]

I've been using it for over a year now without issues. What are the issues you're referring to?

[goldbergyoni]

My concerns/questions are:

1. It's defined as experimental
2. The supported package managers in the docs are: pnpm, yarm. Not npm (to my understanding based on a brief reading)

[elektronik2k5]

That's cause npm is already bundled with node itself. But if I understand correctly, one can use corepack to manage and enforce the exact version of npm. Haven't tried it myself though, cause npm is rubbish.

[goldbergyoni]

The main idea IMO is the proxying to a pinned version, if the most popular package manager can't be proxied (regardless of its internal quality) - isn't it becoming a niche recommendation?

Seems to me like yarn/pnpm is widely used by savvy and brave developers, but not a mainstream tool. Am I wrong here?

[josh-hemphill]

All the vue-related projects on Github I've come across have been using pnpm, as well as a lot of other library authors.
But if we're talking about node version management, pnpm has it's own node version manager built in.