Developer(s) | Various |
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Initial release | 18 June 2016[1] |
Stable release | 4.5.0[2]
/ 14 September 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | TypeScript, JavaScript |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Package manager |
License | BSD 2-Clause License |
Website | yarnpkg |
Yarn is one of the main JavaScript package managers,[3][4] developed in 2016 by Sebastian McKenzie of Meta (formerly Facebook) for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created as a collaboration of Facebook (now Meta), Exponent (now Expo.dev), Google, and Tilde (the company behind Ember.js) to solve consistency, security, and performance problems with large codebases.[5]