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Why we moved our Backstage platform from Yarn to pnpm

What Git worktrees, parallel coding agents, and a cache pointing at the wrong directory taught us about the assumptions hiding inside node_modules .

  • Company migrated from Yarn to pnpm for Backstage platform
  • CI runs revealed cache issues causing each job to start from scratch
  • Optimizations reduced pnpm archive size by 72% and saved pipeline time

Why Static Mock APIs Aren't Enough for Modern Frontend Development

Every frontend developer has experienced this sequence: You start building an interactive web application. The backend is not yet ready, so you connect to a popular free mock API like JSONPlaceholder…

  • Static mock servers provide stateless echo responses.
  • Modern frontend development faces issues with static mocks.
  • Stateful session-based mocks preserve mutations across requests.

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