# pnpm Content-Addressable Store

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-store/  
**Provider:** pnpm — https://apis.io/providers/pnpm/  
**Documentation:** https://pnpm.io/symlinked-node-modules-structure

pnpm Content-Addressable Store is one of 5 APIs that [pnpm](https://apis.io/providers/pnpm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Storage, Node.js, Package Manager, and Cache. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

A content-addressable store that holds every version of every package exactly once on disk and hard-links (or reflinks) files into project `node_modules`. This produces a strict, non-flat dependency layout where packages can only access their declared dependencies, and saves significant disk space across projects on the same machine. Includes commands to inspect, prune, verify, and configure the store.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://pnpm.io/symlinked-node-modules-structure
- **Documentation** — https://pnpm.io/motivation
- **Documentation** — https://pnpm.io/cli/store
- **Documentation** — https://pnpm.io/npmrc#store-dir

## Other pnpm APIs (4)

- [pnpm CLI](https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-cli/)
- [pnpm Workspaces](https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-workspaces/)
- [pnpm Hooks](https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-hooks/)
- [pnpm Configuration](https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-config/)

## Tags

Storage, Node.js, Package Manager, Cache

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/pnpm/pnpm-store/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/pnpm/.