Migrate package manager to PNPM

[elchininet]

This pull request migrates the package manager of the repository from yarn to pnpm. Since a while, pnpm has demonstrated to be a better alternative in terms of speed, disk space efficiency, dependency isolation and security.

As part of this pull request, dependencies have been updated to their latest version.

[elchininet]

@Mariusthvdb,
Now that this is merged, first thing to check is if you have any of the needed tools already installed. Open a console and run these commands one by one and let me know if any of them returns something different from command not found:

node -v
npm -v
pnpm -v

[Mariusthvdb]

Installed where? On my regular working computer (MacBook) or in GitHub repo?

[elchininet]

Yes, in your regular computer

[Mariusthvdb]

no not installed.. all command not found ;-)

[elchininet]

Perfect, let's install pnpm first. You need to run from these commands the first one in the section On POSIX systems:

curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -

At the end you should get something like this in your console:

Created /root/.bashrc

Next configuration changes were made:
export PNPM_HOME="/root/.local/share/pnpm"
case ":$PATH:" in
  *":$PNPM_HOME:"*) ;;
  *) export PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" ;;
esac

To start using pnpm, run:
source /root/.bashrc

After that you need to run what it recommends:

source /root/.bashrc

After that if you run this command you should get the pnpm version printed in the console.

pnpm -v

[Mariusthvdb]

yep managed all that and got 10.11.0 as last return on the pnpm -v

just to be sure, after the source etc .zshrc command nothing happened? it just goes to the next line in the terminal
is that ok?

[elchininet]

yep managed all that and got 10.11.0 as last return on the pnpm -v

Perfect

just to be sure, after the source etc .zshrc command nothing happened? it just goes to the next line in the terminal
is that ok?

Yes, it just reloads your configuration to get the changes the installer applied

[elchininet]

Now, let's install Node (together with npm). Let's use version 20 which is in maintenance right now, but with pnpm you can manage the Node versions easily.

Run:

pnpm env use --global 20

After that, check that the next commands give you the version of each one:

node -v
npm -v

[Mariusthvdb]

Yes, it just reload your configuration to get the changes the installer applied

how do I reload?

response is
node - v : v20.19.2
npm -v : 10.8.2

[elchininet]

how do I reload?

You already did it, the command that you wrote did it.

response is
node - v : v20.19.2
npm -v : 10.8.2

Super, you have the three tools already installed, but I forgot an important one: git.

Follow these instructions. If you run git -v and it gives you the version you don't need to do anything, but if not, you need to choose an installation method (I recommend the homebrew one).

[Mariusthvdb]

I get
git version 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)

[elchininet]

Then you have git already installed. Everything is ready, I'll give you instructions later about how to manage the releases in the project.