
Why should you choose yarn over npm What is Yarn? Yarn is a JavaScript package manager created by Facebook. Yarn stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator. It provides similar functionalities as NPM. It is an alternative to NPM when installing, uninstalling, and managing package dependencies from the NPM registry or GitHub repositories. Installation NPM is bundled with Node.js Runtime . It is Node.js Default Package Manager. In other words, when you install Node.js , NPM gets installed. To install a package using NPM, you use the syntax below. npm install <package name> . The package name can be any package you want to use in your project. For example, to install Express run npm install express . Some more distinct NPM package installation include: npm installs <package name> -- global . These are packages you install into your computer system’s local path and not your project location. Such packages can be used or accessed by any project you ...