[jira] [Commented] (AIRFLOW-6272) Manage front-end JS deps with yarnpkg instead of npm

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on AIRFLOW-6272:
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ashb commented on pull request #6844: [AIRFLOW-6272] Switch to yarnpkg for managing front-end dependencies
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/6844
 
 
   Make sure you have checked _all_ steps below.
   
   ### Jira
   
   -  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-6272.
   - Yarn is BSD licensed.
   
   ### Description
   
   It is:
   
   - quicker to install
   - easier to get repeatable results
   - Takes up less space (130MB/15k files vs 190MB/23k files)
   - nicer to user (has better help)
 
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> Manage front-end JS deps with yarnpkg instead of npm
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AIRFLOW-6272
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-6272
>             Project: Apache Airflow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ui
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Ash Berlin-Taylor
>            Assignee: Ash Berlin-Taylor
>            Priority: Minor
>
> NPM seems to be really slow at installing things, and is error-prone/tricky to get the "locked" version installed.
> Yarn (or yarnpkg to not be confused with hadoop's yarn) is a "new" (few years old now) BSD-licesned JS package manager https://yarnpkg.com out of Facebook



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