Installation

Using a standalone script

curl -f https://get.pnpm.io/v5.js | node - add --global pnpm

On Windows (PowerShell):

(Invoke-WebRequest 'https://get.pnpm.io/v5.js' -UseBasicParsing).Content | node - add --global pnpm

Using npm

npm install -g pnpm

Via npx resolution

npx pnpm add -g pnpm

Upgrading

Once you have installed pnpm, there is no need to use other package managers to update it. You can upgrade pnpm using itself, like so:

pnpm add -g pnpm

:::tip

Do you wanna use pnpm on CI servers? See: Continuous Integration.

:::

Compatibility

Here is a list of past pnpm versions with respective Node.js version support.