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yarn

brew install yarn v1.22.22 BSD-2-Clause

JavaScript package manager with fast, reliable dependency resolution and offline support.

Why you might care

Yarn offers deterministic installs via lock files, significantly faster performance than npm through parallel downloads and caching, and works offline after initial setup. Teams often prefer it for reproducible builds and monorepo support; it's a drop-in replacement for npm install workflows.

Categories

package-manager

Alternatives

npm pnpm bun
5.0k
30-day installs · #603
17.3k
90-day · #590
109.0k
365-day · #392

Links

Caveats

yarn requires a Node installation to function. You can install one with:
  brew install node

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