virtual store for multiple projects

[OWLjz18]

Hello I hope you are well! One question... Do you have in mind a virtual store shared by projects?

Something like a store in which absolutely all dependencies are stored and symbolic links to it are created in each project. This (although I know it's not easy) would save much more space.

To give an example, suppose the virtual store is in ~/.virtual-store and we have a project (project A) in which we execute "pnpm add -ED eslint", this could save the dependencies in the virtual store and create a symbolic link from the virtual store to the project where it is needed.

But being shared, we could create a new project (project B) and in doing something like "pnpm add -ED --virtual-store (or --offline) eslint" and this, like project A, would create a link symbolic to the virtual store. Thus maintaining a single "disk space" since we would not have 20Mb in project A and B, but those 20Mb would only be in the virtual store.

At the moment, I achieved a similar effect, the only problem I have for now is that if we already have (for example) eslint in the virtual store and I go to another project in which eslint is not used and install (for example) nodemon, this adds me nodemon to the virtual store, but removes eslint.

Although... If I go back to the first project that uses eslint and do a "pnpm fetch" it re-adds eslint to the virtual store WITHOUT "removing" nodemon. So the result ends up being: eslint + nodemon in a virtual store, which is the only one that takes up disk space, while my two projects only symbolically link to that store.