Comment by ironarm

I've been enjoying pnpm as my node package manager for about a year now.

<https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm>

It centrally downloads all of the modules and then "symlinks" them into your `node_modules` folder.

This is nice because one, it uses less disk space, two, if you've already downloaded a package at a particular version it links it out of the local repo.

Also uses shrinkwrap to handle package locking.