What are Yarn and NPM?

Yarn and NPM are both package managers for JavaScript and are used to install, update, and remove packages.

Differences Between Yarn and NPM

There are several aspects where Yarn and NPM differ, let's review some of them:

Speed

Yarn is known for installing packages faster than NPM because it caches every package it downloads.

Security

Yarn utilizes checksums to verify the integrity of every installed package before its code is executed. This is an added security feature in comparison to NPM.

Commands

While some basic commands remain the same (yarn add vs npm install), some commands are different like yarn remove vs npm uninstall.