This tag is for Yarn v 1.x. See version-specific tags, as version differences are significant. Yarn is an open-source JavaScript package manager. With Yarn, engineers have access to the npm registry and can install packages quickly, and manage dependencies consistently across machines or in secure offline environments.
Yarn is a fast, reliable and secure package manager for Node.js and JavaScript projects, which is compatible with the npm package registry. It aims to avoid the issues caused by npm, such as non-deterministic installations, complex dependency trees, and unreliable package combinations.
Yarn takes inspiration from Cargo, the Rust package manager, and Bundler, a Ruby tool.
The majority of packages created with npm (version 3) should be compatible with Yarn and the node_modules directory produced should satisfy all dependencies.
When should I use yarnpkg?
Use yarnpkg when your question directly relates to Yarn. Questions about package installation issues, or Yarn's performance are in the scope of this tag and are welcome under yarnpkg.
Don't tag questions just because you use Yarn in your project when it's clearly not relevant to the core of your question. For example, "Why doesn't this if statement work?" is off-topic for this tag even if you used Yarn to set it up. Consider javascript or node.js instead for these questions.
Useful References
- The official Yarn website
- Getting Started with Yarn
- Known Issues on GitHub
Comparison of npm and Yarn commands
yarn add=npm install --saveyarn global add=npm install --globalyarn ls=npm ls
