Corepack is a script that acts as a bridge between NodeJS projects and package managers that are used during the development phase. You don’t have to install Yarn or pnpm but you can use them with corepack. It is like npm. NPM is shipped along with NodeJS by default. The NodeJS documentation clearly says that corepack is an experimental tool so go through the documentation carefully before starting to use it. The supported package managers are Yarn and pnpm. Corepack also supports npm like any other package manager. To configure a package the corepack proxies will find the nearest package,json file in the current folder and extract its packageManager property. If the value is compatible with the supported package manager Corepack will assure that all calls to relevant binaries are run against the requested version. 

To enable corepack run corepack enable. This will set up symlinks in the environment. Any calls to a supported binary will work without any intervention after this. To disable corepack run corepack disable. This will remove the proxies from your system.