From the course: Node.js: Deploying Applications
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Packaging choices - Node.js Tutorial
From the course: Node.js: Deploying Applications
Packaging choices
- [Instructor] NPM is the default package manager for Node. It works well, pulls in needed libraries, and operates at both the user and system level as needed. Yarn is a new Java Script package manager built by, among other folks, Facebook and Google. It was created to overcome some perceived shortcomings in NPM, many of them related to deployment pipelines. So, what were the downsides of NPM? First, installation is slow. If you're building a serious application, spending several minutes pulling in modules every time you make a change, can really slow down the build process, quite a bit, especially if you do it on each release to make sure you've got exactly the right libraries. Next, NPM is often happy to give you different versions of downstream libraries for each build, which can cause inconsistencies in the behavior of the resulting application. NPM Shrink Wrap helps out with this and will take a look at it, but Yarn takes a different approach. Finally, there are security concerns…
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