A new dawn for node installs.

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aube /ob/ - pronounced "ohb"

Aube is a fast Node.js package manager that drops into existing JavaScript and TypeScript projects - no lockfile migration required.

Start running

$mise use aube

Other install methods

4.6x
faster than pnpm
2.6x
faster than bun

90% npm copies dependencies into every project. Aube keeps package files in one global store and links projects to it, so three apps with React, Vite, TypeScript, and Playwright share the heavy files instead of storing three full copies.
less disk space than npm