Is it possible to switch pnpm version back and forth like nvm?

[jonathanfilbert]

Hey, so my company is migrating from pnpm@4 to pnpm@6 and since we have a lot of services, some already migrated into pnpm@6 whilst some are still in pnpm@4. Let's say for example my machine is running on pnpm@4 and I have to develop a feature on a service that's running pnpm@6, I would always get an error like the following:

Expected version: >=6.23.2
Got: 4.14.4

the same applies if I'm running pnpm@6 and want to develop a feature on a service running pnpm@4.

Is there some kind of an nvm where we can switch quickly between pnpm version to a specific version needed for our codebase? If not, what is the recommended strategy for teams to develop features in-between pnpm transition?

Thanks!

[zkochan]

Sorry, I am currently not aware of such feature. So you probably need to reinstall pnpm. Or you can dynamically run pnpm.

To run v4:

pnpm dlx pnpm@4 install

To run v6:

pnpm dlx pnpm@6 install

Also, v7 is already in progress. It will be latest on May 1st

[Bessonov]

May be you are interested in this answer about corepack.

[airtonix]

use asdf instead of nvm, then you can manage all kinds of tools (we use it for pnpm, node, yarn etc)

[zkochan]

It is now possible with pnpm v9.7.