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NPM is a lot more than the CLI. Even if you use yarn as the CLI you are still using npm for hosting and all the other parts that don't run on your computer. You
by SahAssar 7y ago
NPM is a lot more than the CLI. Even if you use yarn as the CLI you are still using npm for hosting and all the other parts that don't run on your computer. You can run your own npm repo, but hardly anyone does for all their dependencies (not talking about just caching here).
I'd wager most people who use yarn even installed it via the npm CLI.
- hinkley 7y agoI mean yes, but no, but yes. For one, a lot of companies end up using Artifactory or similar, so npm is the source of truth but not the source of tarballs. Didn't GitHub set up their own npm registry recently? Shots have been fired in this regard. Which, now that I type that out, makes me kinda wonder how amicable this purchase was... It'd be such a shame if something bad were to happen to your lovely repository...