Ask HN: Is yarn still a thing for frontend dev in 2025?
Yarn 2.0 seems to have failed because all the projects I've seen using Yarn are still on Yarn 1.0. It's slow and glitchy, and I feel quite uneasy using it. I switched to either npm or pnpm for all my projects about three years ago, and the number of errors I've encountered has significantly decreased compared to when I was using Yarn. So, my question is: Is Yarn still a thing for frontend development in 2025?
Modern Yarn (currently on 4.x) works great. We use it in the Redux library repos. I don't think it ever hit a majority of usage, but the tool itself is solid. That said, yeah, PNPM has gotten more popularity lately.
avoid it.
the problem here is you end up requiring an unmaintained package manager on your devs workstations and on your ci and in your prod.
if your workflow can work with npm, why would you complicate?