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JavaScript

Anaet Hossain
Anaet Hossain
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Posted by Anaet Hossain
Anaet Hossain
13,153 Points

Yarn instead of NPM

Can i use YARN instead of NPM?

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,550 Points
andren
andren
28,550 Points

You don't specify what course you are referencing, but in general the answer to that question is yes. Yarn is designed to be a drop-in replacement for npm.

Some of its syntax and behavior is slightly different, but it generates a package.json file that is npm compatible, and it can also read npm package.json files without issue.

I have personally moved to yarn for all of my projects, though I still use npm to install global packages since that has been buggy for me with Yarn on Windows.