Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
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Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
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Re: Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
#2Kudos to the Yarn contributors for launching with a public RFC governance model right from the start: https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs
Practical, usable, deterministic lockfiles are wonderful and the lack of them has been the single biggest pain point in the npm ecosystem.
Re: Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
#3It looks like this addresses the biggest issues people have with npm's CLI, and it's coming from such huge names: Facebook, Google, and Tilde. Reproducible builds are a _huge_ issue, and this gives you that. Looks great!
One interesting little tidbit I found from diving into the source:
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/constants.js#L15
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/registries/yarn-registry.js
Oh! And open governance: https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs !
Re: Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
#4It looks like this addresses the biggest issues people have with npm's CLI, and it's coming from such huge names: Facebook, Google, and Tilde. Reproducible builds are a _huge_ issue, and this gives you that. Looks great! One interesting little tidbit I found from diving into the source: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/constants.js#L15 https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/registries/yarn-reg…
Huh, interesting! I thought this was going to just be a client. I wonder if it resolved to npm's servers or something.
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#6I think the write-up should specify `npm install -g yarnpkg` not `npm install -g yarn`.
Re: Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
#7It looks like this addresses the biggest issues people have with npm's CLI, and it's coming from such huge names: Facebook, Google, and Tilde. Reproducible builds are a _huge_ issue, and this gives you that. Looks great! One interesting little tidbit I found from diving into the source: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/constants.js#L15 https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/src/registries/yarn-reg…
Oh hi Steve! https://registry.yarnpkg.com is just a proxy to the normal npm registry provided by Cloudflare so we can add additional caching and work on network performance (lots of stuff we could layer on top). It should hopefully help those in China as well which would be awesome. But everything you do still lives on the normal npm registry.
Re: Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
#8I hope this becomes the default way to build npm projects... and then npm install becomes yarn :-) Exactly reproducible builds is a godsend to the js community.
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#9> Yarn, a collaboration with Exponent, Google, and Tilde.
They should mention this at the very beginning. Multiple big players investing in this package manager means that we should maybe inspect a little bit more before chanting xkcd.com/927.
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#10"Linking: Finally, Yarn links everything together by copying all the files needed from the global cache into the local node_modules directory."
Stop copying stuff. Just make it global and link.
Next step is to make packages immutable and signed.
I'm happy with this step and the fact that facebook will be able to push this.