Yarn came out yesterday, and raises a few questions, Imma just leave this here.
I haven't tried everything so I'll separate my questions/remarks in 2 parts:
"another" package manager LOL
Yup. And that's good. The thing that is not good is that almost nobody cared about the other ones. The npm blog mentions a few.
You will force your team / admins to use yarn
Ok you switched to yarn, because it's so fresh and so cool and so fast. So you want yarn everywhere and I understand. What happens when your code is deployed ?
If you're on docker and you manage your dockerfile and deps, it's ok.
But sometimes, you don't manage it. So your stack have an impact on other teams. Use with care !
Usable programmatically ?
Nope.
How about shrinkwrap ?
It's not the good old npm-shrinkwrap.json, but yarn.lock "stores the exact versions of each dependency for your package."
How about deps: dev / optional / peer / global ?
Supported !
- normal:
yarn add <package...> - dev / peer / optional:
yarn add <package...> --<dev / peer / optional> - global: use
yarn global *(*= whatever command)
Debug mode ?
npm is pretty crazy when you enable debug mode.
yarn also has a --debug flag that display some stuff, but less than npm (I just gave it a quick glance).
How about my .npmrc ?
Supported !
yarn config list shows the yarn config and the npm config.
When setting values, they don't go to the .npmrc (I don't know where they go...)
And my private registry ?
Haven't tried it, seems unclear...
How about github ?
It works (npm install <user>/<module> === yarn add <user>/<module>).
Adding to an existing project ?
You have to run yarn init which tries to get some values from your package.json, but it'll ask questions and complete the file.
For example, we have no author or license, yarn added them.
Can I run things ?
I use npm-run-all to run a bunch of tests on my project. It runs fine with npm test but:
~/d/e/Projet (develop ↩=) yarn run test
yarn run v0.15.1
$ "npm-run-all test:*"
sh: npm-run-all test:*: command not found
error Command failed with exit code 127.
info Visit http://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
Le sad face.
Does most of it swag comes from the fact that it's from facebook ?
Surely. Also, everybody is tweeting about yarn's perf so it's something important, right ?