As someone who tried Yarn as soon as it came out, I found that it neither worked as advertised (offline mode did not work) nor were the developers very responsive to GitHub activity. My brother and I whipped up a PR for them which fixes a bug with offline mode, and we heard nothing from them for an entire month before they simply merged it without any comments. I was expecting them to at least complain to us that we didn't write any unit tests...
I still don't really understand why Yarn exists to this day. pnpm has existed for longer than Yarn and solves an actual problem that I care about: saving HDD space. When I have hundreds of different small projects on my HDD and they all need node_modules, pnpm is really great. Plus their developer always responded to me within 20 minutes of me opening an issue, which put it way over the top of Yarn in my opinion.
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As someone who tried Yarn as soon as it came out, I found that it neither worked as advertised (offline mode did not work) nor were the developers very responsive to GitHub activity. My brother and I whipped up a PR for them which fixes a bug with offline mode, and we heard nothing from them for an entire month before they simply merged it without any comments. I was expecting them to at least complain to us that we didn't write any unit tests...
I still don't really understand why Yarn exists to this day. pnpm has existed for longer than Yarn and solves an actual problem that I care about: saving HDD space. When I have hundreds of different small projects on my HDD and they all need node_modules, pnpm is really great. Plus their developer always responded to me within 20 minutes of me opening an issue, which put it way over the top of Yarn in my opinion.