So I know that this is one of those topics that's more about preference in 2021. I want to hear from both sides and see if my assumptions need to be updated.
Personally I favor Yarn and have done so for about 4 years working mostly on React projects in teams with 3 - 10 developers. Yarn and it's locked files removed issues of dependencies being a different version and sometimes causing weirdness. Similarly the CI versions have seem to create consistent builds. Finally the lock file is stable and only really changes when a package version is updated, while the last time I used npm the lock file updated a lot more often for no reason.
I would love to hear and have a discussion on the state of NPM and Yarn what the feelings are out there.
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I don't know if it's 'better', but there is pnpm.
Yarn is wayyyy better then npm atleast for me. It just throws npm out in every spec either performance or speed or whatever.
yarn is much faster, at least for my PC
Since v5, npm has improved a lot in speed. Now npm is faster than yarn. I tested it on cloud server as well as my PC and the result is pretty good for npm.