PNPM Configuration Defaults 7/8

Method

1. Go to each version's npmrc documenation page

   • v7: https://pnpm.io/7.x/npmrc
   • v8: https://pnpm.io/npmrc (while latest, after: https://pnpm.io/8.x/npmrc)

2. Run this script in the browser developer tools to get the list of options

   [...document.querySelectorAll('ul.table-of-contents > li > ul > li > a.table-of-contents__link')]
     .map(a => a.textContent)
     .join('\n')

   This produces 76 entries for v7 and 78 entries for v8.

3. Save each to a respective .npmrc file and fill in the defaults per the docs

   This gives us 7.npmrc and 8.npmrc

4. Diff the two configuration files to find removals/additions/changes:

   git diff --no-index 7.npmrc 8.npmrc > diff.diff

   diff --git a/7.npmrc b/8.npmrc
   index 61a345c..8308caa 100644
   --- a/7.npmrc
   +++ b/8.npmrc
   @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ modules-cache-max-age=10080
   lockfile=true
   prefer-frozen-lockfile=true
   lockfile-include-tarball-url=false
   -use-lockfile-v6=false
   registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/
   <URL>:_authToken=
   <URL>:tokenHelper=
   @@ -35,10 +34,10 @@ fetch-retry-factor=10
   fetch-retry-mintimeout=10000
   fetch-retry-maxtimeout=60000
   fetch-timeout=60000
   -auto-install-peers=false
   -dedupe-peer-dependents=false
   +auto-install-peers=true
   +dedupe-peer-dependents=true
   strict-peer-dependencies=false
   -resolve-peers-from-workspace-root=false
   +resolve-peers-from-workspace-root=true
   no-color=auto
   loglevel=info
   use-beta-cli=false
   @@ -57,8 +56,9 @@ node-mirror:<releaseDir>=https://nodejs.org/download/<releaseDir>/
   link-workspace-packages=true
   prefer-workspace-packages=false
   shared-workspace-lockfile=true
   -save-workspace-protocol=true
   +save-workspace-protocol=rolling
   include-workspace-root=false
   +ignore-workspace-cycles=false
   use-running-store-server=false
   save-prefix='^'
   tag=latest
   @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ update-notifier=true
   prefer-symlinked-executables=true, when node-linker is set to hoisted and the system is POSIX
   verify-store-integrity=true
   ignore-compatibility-db=false
   -resolution-mode=highest
   +resolution-mode=lowest-direct
   registry-supports-time-field=false
   extend-node-path=true
   +deploy-all-files=false
   +dedupe-direct-deps=false

5. Determine the changes:

   • use-v6-lockfile was removed (was false) and became true by default and is no longer configurable
     • https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v8.0.0 "Lockfile Modifications"
   • auto-install-peers, dedupe-peer-dependents and resolve-peers-from-workspace-root changed to true (were false)
   • save-workspace-protocol changed to rolling (was true)
   • ignore-workspace-cycles was introduced and is false
   • resolution-mode changed to lowest-direct (was highest)
   • deploy-all-files and dedupe-direct-deps were introduced and are false

   I cross-checked these with the release notes for PNPM 8 releases and they seem to line up!