Are you sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10817978
On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 3:15:42 AM UTC+5:30, Justin Fagnani wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM, <craig.je...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Specifically, NPM 5 does not accomplish #3 of your list. >> > > This is exactly right > > >> I've heard that they are working on enabling that in a future release but >> for now the only package manager based off of the npm registry that can >> handle flat dependency trees is yarn. >> >> On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 9:30:14 AM UTC-5, Mark wrote: >>> >>> I was reading Polymer's 3.0 Preview documentation >>> <https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2017-08-23-hands-on-30-preview> >>> and see that they've announced that yarn is a dependency. >>> >>> Why? instead of just using NPM 5 >>> <https://auth0.com/blog/whats-new-in-node8-and-npm5/>, which does a lot >>> of the same things yarn does? >>> In the summit, they have said <https://youtu.be/JH6jEcLxJEI?t=8m20s> >>> that they needed a package manager to: >>> >>> 1. Manages dependencies >>> 2. Resolves version conflicts >>> 3. Supports a flat dependency tree >>> 4. Has an active community >>> >>> >>> AFAIK, npm already does this in later versions. So why use yarn which is >>> unnecessary? >>> I get that yarn may be the hot dependency manager today but a lot of >>> people are fine with just using npm. >>> >> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Polymer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to polymer-dev...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/2e9f6920-4a45-4c84-9a5d-7208653c98ba%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/2e9f6920-4a45-4c84-9a5d-7208653c98ba%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to polymer-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/3d5c1243-7a13-44ef-9c65-d958f3acef0f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.