Hasty Treat - Whats the deal with npm, yarn and lock files?!

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• Episode: Hasty Treat - Whats the deal with npm, yarn and lock files?!
• Website: Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
• Feed URL: https://feed.syntax.fm/rss
• Duration: 00:26:25
• Published: 2018-07-30 15:00

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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