badge-generator VS yarn

I use a workflow similar to the one above that is implemented in my Badge Generator web app, which is built in Vue and Yarn.

Looking through my classmates' contributions for Hacktoberfest, I found badge-generator - a cool tool that helps us create markdown badges for our documentations. The owner wants to implement the dark mode for the site, and since the tool is written with VueJS, I decided to challenge myself as I could also continue to learn this framework.

Eventually, I remembered one of the repos that I've used before to contribute to one of the Hacktoberfest issues, I thought that it would be nice to give back (hint hint😉😉😉 something to think about when looking for an issue... hint😉) to that repo. I quickly gave up everything I was doing and went to check it out to see if it is even active and if it has any open issues I could work on. To my surprise, no one except the author has ever contributed to that before, so I am now officially one of the first contributors there.😋

After browsing for a while, I found MichaelCurrin's project, badge-generator. The project is a simple interface for simplifying the creation of badges, used in several open source projects to show things like the version number of the project, whether the project is currently building, etc. A badge usually looks like this:

I learned was that even if an issue seems small and something that you can handle, it doesn't mean you will not learn a lot out of it. During the process, I learned about a handy open source repo that helps to generate badges to make README files look prettier. And a cool tool that has all the emojis you need for your frontend.

badge-generator

instead. Please refer tothis issue for guidance. Following the instructions in this issue will ensure the correct installation of Yarn.

As an alternative, you can use the Yarn CLI command:

The PR for Auto detect and merge lockfile conflicts provides insight into the latest implementation in /src/lockfile/parse.js.

this this maybe https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/8331

Yarn, but you can use npm or pnpm as alternatives to yarn if you prefer.

Yarn definitely shot themselves in the foot badly. PnP identified real problems & came up with a solution, but pnpm is doing a similar set of tricks but in a Node-ecosystem-compatible way, with next to no compatibility issues (versus package maintainers having to each individually support Yarn V2 PnP). Yarn V2 seemingly thought they could get the entire npm package world to switch to yarn, saw their growth & saw the thought-leaders & decided their winning was a fait-accompli.

And they didn't really execute very well... v2 landed, there was controversy, and there's been so little visible or exciting good news about it. It over-played Yarns so hand they renamed Yarn v2 as Berry, just to re-gather the troops & make a staging point forward. But it's still an incredibly hard pill to swallow, and the "yarn (berry) is great, the ecosystem needs to change" attitude seemingly isn't gaining any traction and it's hard to tell where Yarn could go.

In Yarn v3[1], they've introduced a modular "linker" system for how to install packages, that seemingly might get them able to experiment around/play around a little more & be less constrained than the hard-path they'd crusaded for.

One thing I will say for Yarn, that makes me unbelievably happy versus npm (announced during the V2[2] announcement):

> Yarn is first and foremost a Node API that can be used programmatically (via @yarnpkg/core)

Npm is the premier tool for open-source javascript, but it itself is one of the least open-source efforts on the planet. I finally started digging around the npm package and it's underlying cacache cache-structure, and it's just infinitely unpleasant to get started with. There's maybe like 3 articles on the whole planet that have any guidance for what npm is inside, how it works, what you can do with it, how you can hack it. Yarn identifying that the package manager itself is something that developers need access to is a huge win & I want to thank them forever for putting that on their bullet list of great Yarn things.

[1] https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-3-0-performances-esbuild-better-...

[2] "Yarn's Future - v2 and beyond" https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953

Unfortunately, as I found out, yarn's resolutions property has a long history of not playing well with optionalDependencies: anything placed into resolutions is treated as required and will abruptly fail to install if it is, for example, a platform-specific package appropriate for your deploy environment but not your dev environment or vice versa, as is the case here.

It was July 2021. I started with [email protected] since I’ve been using it for a long time. Yarn was fast, but soon I met several issues with Yarn Workspaces. E.g., not hoisting dependencies correctly, and tons of issues are tagged with “fixed in modern”, which redirects me to the v2 (berry).

Upgrading dependencies: Yarn 1's yarn upgradeonly upgrades direct dependencies of the current workspace. Yarn 2's up ignores the version ranges in your package.json and upgrades for all workspaces. npm's and pnpm'supdate respect your version ranges and upgrade indirect dependencies as well.