And this is the place where package managers come into play.Ī package manager is a tool that automatically handles a project’s dependencies in a variety of ways. Nowadays, it’s common for even a fairly simple project to have hundreds or thousands of scripts, with complex nested dependencies, which are simply impossible to manage without some kind of automated tool. But since then, the Web has changed drastically. Laying Out the Basicsīack in the good old days, a simple text editor was enough for developers to create and manage the large part of their projects. We’ll set them side by side and explore their respective benefits and disadvantages to help you choose which one to use for your projects.
In this tutorial, we’ll compare Yarn vs npm - the two most popular package managers.
