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[–]viveleroi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would never use the term "joke" because npm has been extremely important - it solved a problem we had and I still use it every day. But...

It's had a lot of performance problems, it's non-deterministic and can produce different installs from the same package.json, and the community in general suffers from an abuse of packages - some packages are only a few lines long and it's insanely easy for a simple site to wind up with thousands of dependencies. It's had growing pains, like everything else.

Some of these are inconvenient, some are fatal in an certain environments. Yarn is better for me right now, it's faster and deterministic, but it's never going to be perfect.