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Yarn

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Yarn is an alternative npm client that can be used to download GitHub repositories and NPM packages. At the time of writing, parallel downloads and caching are its main strengths over NPM.

You can use NPM to install it:

npm i –g yarn

CLI commands comparison

npm (v5) Yarn
npm install yarn add
(N/A) yarn add --flat
(N/A) yarn add --har
npm install --no-package-lock yarn add --no-lockfile
(N/A) yarn add --pure-lockfile
npm install [package] --save yarn add [package]
npm install [package] --save-dev yarn add [package] --dev
(N/A) yarn add [package] --peer
npm install [package] --save-optional yarn add [package] --optional
npm install [package] --save-exact yarn add [package] --exact
(N/A) yarn add [package] --tilde
npm install [package] --global yarn global add [package]
npm update --global                   yarn global upgrade                    
npm rebuild yarn add --force
npm uninstall [package] yarn remove [package]
npm cache clean yarn cache clean [package]
rm -rf node_modules && npm install   yarn upgrade                          
npm version major                     yarn version --major                  
npm version minor                     yarn version --minor                  
npm version patch                     yarn version --patch