- NPM stands for Node Package Manager.
- YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator.
- Both NPM and YARN are package managers for public or private packages.
- YARN was developed by Facebook to fix performance and security issues with npm.
- NPM generates package-lock.json file
- YARN generates yarn.lock file
- NPM installs dependencies Sequentially.
- YARN installs dependencies parellelly.
- NPM maintains global package cache, which stores downloaded packages. This global cache shares across all projects, which saves disk space and reduce redundant downloads.
- YARN maintains cache for each project seperately. Which increases reliability and ensures consistent package versions.
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