pnpm install

pnpm install is used to install all dependencies for a project.

tl;dr

Command	Meaning
`pnpm i --offline`	no network requests
`pnpm i --frozen-lockfile`	`pnpm-lock.yaml` is not updated
`pnpm i --prefer-frozen-lockfile`	when possible, `pnpm-lock.yaml` is not updated

Options

--recursive, -r

Concurrently runs install in all subdirectories with a package.json (excluding node_modules).

--offline

Default: false
Type: Boolean

If true, pnpm will use only packages already available in the store. If a package won't be found locally, the installation will fail.

--prefer-offline

Added in: v1.28.0

Default: false
Type: Boolean

If true, staleness checks for cached data will be bypassed, but missing data will be requested from the server. To force full offline mode, use --offline.

--ignore-scripts

Default: false
Type: Boolean

Do not execute any scripts defined in the project package.json and its dependencies.

Note: this flag does not prevent the execution of pnpmfile.js

--production[=true|false]

Default: false
Type: Boolean

pnpm will not install any package listed in devDependencies if the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production. Use this flag to instruct pnpm to ignore NODE_ENV and take its production-or-not status from this flag instead.

Notes: --production is the same as --production=true. --prod is an alias of --production.

--lockfile-only

Added in: v1.26.0 (initially named shrinkwrap-only)

Default: false
Type: Boolean

When used, only updates pnpm-lock.yaml and package.json instead of checking node_modules and downloading dependencies.

--frozen-lockfile

Added in: v1.37.1 (initially named frozen-shrinkwrap)

Default: false
Type: Boolean

If true, pnpm doesn't generate a lockfile and fails if an update is needed.

--reporter=<name>

Default:
- For TTY stdout: default
- For non-TTY stdout: append-only
Type: default, append-only, ndjson, silent

Allows to choose the reporter that will print info about the installation progress.

silent - no output is logged to the console, except fatal errors
default - the default reporter when the stdout is TTY
append-only (Added in v1.29.1) - the output is always appended to the end. No cursor manipulations are performed
ndjson - the most verbose reporter. Prints all logs in ndjson format

--use-store-server

Added in: v1.30.0

Default: false
Type: Boolean

Starts a store server in the background. The store server will keep running after installation is done. To stop the store server, run pnpm server stop