Hasty Treat - Whats the deal with npm, yarn and lock files?!
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes discuss npm, yarn, lock files, why they’re useful, why you would or wouldn’t want to track them in Git and much more!
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Show Notes
4:10
- What is npm and yarn?
8:00
- What’s the difference between npm and yarn?
12:00
- What is semver?
16:40
- What is the dependency tree?
- This is the problem that lock files solve
20:32
- Cool new features of npm and yarn
- npx
- security warnings
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Syntax in this hasty treat episode |
| 0:29.7 | where we bring to you bite-sized topics. |
| 0:32.6 | We're gonna be covering NPM, |
| 0:34.4 | we're gonna be covering yarn, |
| 0:35.9 | we're gonna be covering all sorts of things |
| 0:37.5 | involving NPM yarn, like package files, |
| 0:40.1 | lock files, and all sorts of good stuff. |
| 0:42.3 | And with me as always is Wes. lock files and all sorts of good stuff. |
| 0:42.7 | And with me as always is Wes Boss. |
| 0:46.2 | Barracuda Boss. |
| 0:47.2 | Oh yeah, Barracuda Boss in the house. |
| 0:49.9 | And I am Scott El Toro Loco Tolinsky. Here we are ready to go and yeah today's episode |
| 0:56.6 | today's hasty treat is sponsored by Netlify. Now many of you who've been |
| 1:01.5 | listening to this podcast have tried Netify after hearing it on this |
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