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Why I Use Yarn, Not npm

Josh Pollock on January 18, 2020

Update: This post is based on using Yarn 1. A major update Yarn 2 has been released. I use Yarn 1.x. In the comments of my post about things I do ...
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Asaju Enitan •

living in a country with expensive internet data, I feel like Yarn was made for me🙂.
Say for example, I forgot that I have a package installed, trying to reinstall with yarn will exit with it telling me it's been installed, also, if I had a network error while installing packages, it doesn't reinstall all the packages, it installs the specific one needed, I could go on and on about this. But the BOC is Yarn >>>>>>>>>> NPM😁

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Ben Sinclair •

Hello-world in gatsby is a quarter of a gigabyte. I understand that having to download that again on a metered connection would be annoying, but I think the bigger problem is that HELLO WORLD IS A QUARTER OF A GIGABYTE.

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad •

HELLO WORLD IS A QUARTER OF A GIGABYTE

WHAT?! WHY???!!

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Ben Sinclair •

node_modules

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Asaju Enitan •

what I can't quite figure out is why don't node_modules work like python modules, just download what is needed. no more

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Ben Sinclair •

Partly I think the problem is that when things go wrong, the recommended solution for most problems is to delete node_modules and run setup again.
It's the old "have you tried turning it off and on again?" solution.

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Navicstein Rotciv •

good thoughts about yarn, have your tried pnpm?

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Josh Pollock •

Not yet. Have you?

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Navicstein Rotciv •

Yeap, it's really cool only that in some vue projects it breaks HMR due to the symlink

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Paweł Kowalski •

Its a shame, because npm is just as fast as yarn nowadays. ;)

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Nguyễn Minh Tuấn •

I use yarn because project doesn't show bugs :V

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Nurofsun •

Personally, I prefer use pnpm :)