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Yarn vs pre-commit

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Overview

pre-commit
pre-commit
Stacks1.4K
Followers43
Votes0
GitHub Stars802
Forks95
Yarn
Yarn
Stacks28.2K
Followers13.5K
Votes151
GitHub Stars41.5K
Forks2.7K

Yarn vs pre-commit: What are the differences?

  1. Dependency Management: Yarn is a package manager that allows for efficient management of project dependencies, ensuring consistent and reliable installations, while pre-commit is a tool used for setting up and managing pre-commit hooks in a project's repository.

  2. Languages Supported: Yarn is primarily used for managing JavaScript packages and dependencies, while pre-commit can be integrated with a variety of programming languages and tools beyond just JavaScript.

  3. Purpose: Yarn focuses on package management and optimization for JavaScript projects, while pre-commit is more focused on enforcing code quality and standards through pre-commit hooks.

  4. Installation: Yarn is installed globally on a system, whereas pre-commit is installed locally within a specific project repository.

  5. Execution Time: Yarn is executed during the setup and installation of project dependencies, while pre-commit runs before each commit to enforce any specified checks or tests.

  6. Usage: Yarn is used mainly during the development and implementation phases of a project, whereas pre-commit is used to enforce coding standards and ensure consistency before committing changes to a repository.

In Summary, Yarn and pre-commit serve distinct purposes in the development process - Yarn for dependency management and pre-commit for enforcing code quality standards.

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Advice on pre-commit, Yarn

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Apr 23, 2019

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From a StackShare Community member: “I’m a freelance web developer (I mostly use Node.js) and for future projects I’m debating between npm or Yarn as my default package manager. I’m a minimalist so I hate installing software if I don’t need to- in this case that would be Yarn. For those who made the switch from npm to Yarn, what benefits have you noticed? For those who stuck with npm, are you happy you with it?"

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zen-li
zen-li

Apr 24, 2019

ReviewonYarnYarn

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I am not sure about the performance of the latest version of npm, whether it is different from my understanding of it below. Because I use npm very rarely when I had the following knowledge.

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I use Yarn because, first, yarn is the first tool to lock the version. Second, although npm also supports the lock version, when you use npm to lock the version, and then use package-lock.json on other systems, package-lock.json Will be modified. You understand what I mean, when you deploy projects based on Git...

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Oleksandr
Oleksandr

Senior Software Engineer at joyn

Dec 7, 2019

Decided

As we have to build the application for many different TV platforms we want to split the application logic from the device/platform specific code. Previously we had different repositories and it was very hard to keep the development process when changes were done in multiple repositories, as we had to synchronize code reviews as well as merging and then updating the dependencies of projects. This issues would be even more critical when building the project from scratch what we did at Joyn. Therefor to keep all code in one place, at the same time keeping in separated in different modules we decided to give a try to monorepo. First we tried out lerna which was fine at the beginning, but later along the way we had issues with adding new dependencies which came out of the blue and were not easy to fix. Next round of evolution was yarn workspaces, we are still using it and are pretty happy with dev experience it provides. And one more advantage we got when switched to yarn workspaces that we also switched from npm to yarn what improved the state of the lock file a lot, because with npm package-lock file was updated every time you run npm install, frequent updates of package-lock file were causing very often merge conflicts. So right now we not just having faster dependencies installation time but also no conflicts coming from lock file.

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Detailed Comparison

pre-commit
pre-commit
Yarn
Yarn

pre-commit checks your code for errors before you commit it. pre-commit is configurable.

Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.

debugger: make sure you don't commit a debugger statement;tabs: make sure your code uses leading spaces instead of tabs;whitespace: make sure you don't commit trailing whitespace;jslint: syntax check your javascript before you commit it;ci: run a quick test suite before you commit
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
802
GitHub Stars
41.5K
GitHub Forks
95
GitHub Forks
2.7K
Stacks
1.4K
Stacks
28.2K
Followers
43
Followers
13.5K
Votes
0
Votes
151
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 85
    Incredibly fast
  • 22
    Easy to use
  • 13
    Open Source
  • 11
    Can install any npm package
  • 8
    Works where npm fails
Cons
  • 16
    Facebook
  • 7
    Sends data to facebook
  • 4
    Should be installed separately
  • 3
    Cannot publish to registry other than npm
Integrations
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JavaScript
JavaScript
npm
npm

What are some alternatives to pre-commit, Yarn?

npm

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

RequireJS

RequireJS

RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

Browserify

Browserify

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

Component

Component

Component's philosophy is the UNIX philosophy of the web - to create a platform for small, reusable components that consist of JS, CSS, HTML, images, fonts, etc. With its well-defined specs, using Component means not worrying about most frontend problems such as package management, publishing components to a registry, or creating a custom build process for every single app.

Diff So Fancy

Diff So Fancy

diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

TortoiseGit

TortoiseGit

It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

Verdaccio

Verdaccio

A simple, zero-config-required local private npm registry. Comes out of the box with its own tiny database, and the ability to proxy other registries (eg. npmjs.org), caching the downloaded modules along the way.

GitUI

GitUI

It is a blazing fast terminal-UI for git written in Rust. You can inspect, commit, and amend changes. It has context-based help (no need to memorize tons of hot-keys).

pip

pip

It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.

pre-commit by Yelp

pre-commit by Yelp

If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

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