[PeledYuval]

pnpm has been my goto JS monorepo package manager + script runner for a couple of years now. IMO it has almost zero downsides and huge upsides. I'd be surprised if npm doesn't end up adopting the pnpm node_modules directory hierarchy in the next 5 years or so.

[no_wizard]

I believe the RFC for just that has landed:

https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/0042-isolated...

Yarn has a PNPM mode now too:

https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-31-corepack-esm-pnpm-optional-pa...