{"id":28628,"date":"2016-12-05T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=28628"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:03:58","slug":"yarn-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/yarn-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Yarn: Facebook’s Latest JS Package Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most frontend developers already know about npm<\/a> which is the Node-powered package manager for JavaScript libraries, frameworks and plugins. This is the most widely used package manager by web developers, but Facebook has come up with a brand new package manager<\/strong> named Yarn<\/a> which is quickly becoming npm\u2019s hot rival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With Yarn you can still pull items from the npm repository<\/strong>, but you can also pull from other repos and manage your own custom dependencies installed across many different machines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The biggest benefit of Yarn is consistency for different versions of scripts<\/strong> and management for different machines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Users who rely on npm may have the latest version of jQuery on their laptop, but might switch over to their desktop and be running a slightly outdated version. This can typically be managed with an update call<\/a> but Yarn might be easier.<\/p>\n

Ultimately developers use package managers to install resources called packages from a universal repository<\/strong>. These packages can be libraries, frameworks, or any type of pre-packaged code.<\/p>\n

When it comes to auto-updating packages, Yarn aims to make this process broader, easier and much more secure. These ideas are still coming out of Facebook\u2019s dev team but Yarn already offers some incredible benefits:<\/p>\n