alt Hacker NewsThere are alternative package managers like Yarn that use zip files as a way to store each Node package.[0]
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PaulHoule • yesterday at 4:15 PM
... and of course JAR files in Java are just ZIP files with a little extra metadata and the JVM can unpack them in realtime just fine.
Strong recommendation to use PNPM instead of yarn or npm. IME (webdev since 1998) it's the only sane tool for stewardship of an npm dependency graph.
See https://pnpm.io/motivation
Also, while popularity isn't necessarily a great indicator of quality, a quick comparison shows that the community has decided on pnpm:
https://www.npmcharts.com/compare/pnpm,yarn,npm