pnpm as a drop in replacement for npm

[alshdavid]

Is it possible to use pnpm as a drop-in replacement for npm?

I know for workspaces, I would need to maintain a seperate pnpm-workspace.yaml file alongside the project's existing package.json#workspaces.

Semantically there are differences in the way hoisting works - but is there a way to force pnpm to accept the npm format and produce an npm-compliant output (including the lock format)?

While using pnpm is a no brainer for me, my team is significantly more conservative and the barrier would be lower if there was no migration effort required - simply faster install times - which would lead to turning full pnpm mode on