Picking a Package Manager for Your CI/CD Pipeline

If you want to ship fast then CI/CD is the most important thing for you to consider. But have you ever thought "Does the package manager I use really matter for CI/CD?". This might not be an issue for other languages like Python, but JavaScript does have a few options to choose from: some claiming to be the fastest, others prioritizing developer experience and disk usage, and then there's good old NPM. In this blog post we'll look into different package managers, examples of how to use each, and how well each performs when it comes to CI/CD pipelines. Of course, with everybody's favorite: Benchmarks . The package managers we will discuss are PNPM , NPM , Yarn and Bun . Setup The application used is the standard NestJS starter app, running on a GitLab CI pipeline. Below are the Dockerfile for each of the package managers with a brief explanation of the flags used and some extra info. Note: We will not focus on securing the images for now, so the examples don't include any security measu