WIP: feat: use pnpm #1789

Not sure about deployment.

I've never used pnpm but it looks quite promising!

If we switch to it, we should switch over completely - that also includes the dockerfile and the CI. We also need to update the developer docs.

I think the build image we use in CI also needs an upgrade.

Seems fine to me. The only thing missing now is the pipeline image and likely the docker image itself too.

We'll either need to use an image from someone else or build one ourselves. @dpschen Do you know if there are any official docker images from pnpm?

I did find this: https://pnpm.io/cli/fetch#usage-scenario

That looks like we'll need to add a RUN curl -f https://get.pnpm.io/v6.16.js | node - add --global pnpm to our Dockerfile and also build a simple docker image with that so we can use pnpm in the pipeline without having to install it on every pipeline step.

We'll need to upgrade renovate as well because only the newer versions support pnpm.

We'll need to upgrade renovate as well because only the newer versions support pnpm.

Where can this be upgraded?

I'll need to do that on the server.

Just upgraded, renovate should now be able to handle pnpm dependencies.