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Discussion on: NPM vs Yarn: which package manager do you use?

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Andrew Baisden

My preference is to use npm because I have never really experienced that many problems with it. I have used yarn a few times and it feels like its almost exactly the same as npm. And because npm seems to have more usage I have just stuck with it for now. Unless I can see some real significant performance gains they seem to be more a less the same. It is like comparing React to Angular its just two different ways of doing the same thing.

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Sebastian Alsina • Edited

This was exactly what I thought until I used yarn. Most of the tutorials and open source projects online use npm in their installations guides, so I assumed it was better. I now use yarn always because it’s much speedier and has nicer output.