As JavaScript developers, we have access to several package managers. In this guide, we compare the most popular ones: npm, yarn, and pnpm.
In modern application development, we don’t write everything from scratch. Instead, we prefer to use existing open-source packages. Each of these packages has its own maintainers and community. So, using a package in our projects gives us some advantages like faster development, access to new, regular updates, and better security than custom-created script.
It’s common that one package depends on many other packages to work correctly. Similarly, the other packages may also depend on something like lodash, but lodash itself depends on several packages as well. In other words, the nested dependencies can sometimes become so complex that they are unable to handle dependency management manually.
Here’s when a package manager is extremely useful. Package managers are tools that automatically handle the dependencies of a project.
For example, a package manager can install new — or update existing — packages with a single command. Because everything is automated, so there’s no chance for human error. As JavaScript developers, we have access to several package managers. But, in this guide, we’ll compare the three most popular ones:
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