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Oct 20, 2016 at 21:36
Why I'm Working on Yarn https://yehudakatz.com/2016/10/11/im-excited-to-work-on-yarn-the-new-js-package-manager-2/ (argues, rightly IMO, on the importance of community design over implementation details)
Why I'm Working on Yarn
(This post is about Yarn, a new JS package manager that was announced today [https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360].) I work with Node and npm packages almost every day, on Tilde's main app, Skylight, or on one of Ember's many packages. Many have remarked upon how fast the npm

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