NPM Is Joining GitHub

Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by greymalik on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:35AM (#22603565)

> after we saw what happened to yarn

What happened with yarn? As a very casual user of it, it seems to work well and have pushed npm to innovate a bit when it was stagnating. But I haven’t followed it lately. Were there technical issues or political drama?

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by cfv on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:52AM (#22603961)

Yarn's new version does a bunch of weird, complex to reason about stuff that's closer to a bundler than it is to a module manager: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by halkcyon on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:14AM (#22664865)

> "weird, complex"

I mean, zip files are hardly complex. PnP is a breath of fresh air and lets you commit packages "safely" to your SCM without LFS. NPM has been experimenting in v7 with similar ideas.

I'm personally quite fond of "zero-install" setup to a repo.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by kall on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:31AM (#22604217)

And I think no facebook employees had a significant role in that v2.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by chatmasta on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:05AM (#22604480)

You can use the node-modules linker and then it’s exactly like yarn 1 except faster.

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