“It does not authenticate to the registry the way the official client does, so it’s currently unable to work with private packages. The Yarn team is aware of this issue and have said they’ll address it.”— Isaac Z. Schlueter, blog.npmjs.org
“The team working on Yarn reached out to the major frameworks and made sure that Yarn would be a good fit for projects written using them.”— Yehuda Katz, yehudakatz.com
“Yarn also shows that one of the world’s largest tech companies, which is already behind hugely popular JavaScript projects like React, is invested in and committed to the ongoing health of the npm community. That’s great news for JavaScript devs everywhere.”— Isaac Z. Schlueter, blog.npmjs.org
“By breaking these steps down cleanly and having deterministic results, Yarn is able to parallelize operations, which maximizes resource utilization and makes the install process faster. On some Facebook projects, Yarn reduced the install process by an order of magnitude, from several minutes to just…”— Sebastian McKenzie, code.facebook.com
“Everyone tries to implement a cache at some point in their app’s lifecycle, and this is ours.”— Spotify, github.com
“One of the most difficult parts about caching is managing dependencies between cache entries. In order to reap the benefits of caching, you typically have to denormalize the data that's stored in the cache. Since data from child items is then stored within parent items, it can be challenging to figu…”— Nate Kohari, nkohari.github.io
“Building a better developer experience has been one of the things that React deeply cares about, and a crucial part of it is to detect anti-patterns/potential errors early and provide helpful error messages when things (may) go wrong.”— Keyan Zhang, facebook.github.io
“Such a joke. Good luck to that company, they can come over to Canada and sue me as well, one person isn't solely responsible for a project so that's unfair to pin it on Forbes. I've never even heard of their lame product, make yourself look really bad, that will help!Also (our) Jade has been around…”— TJ Holowaychuk, news.ycombinator.com
“As of today, it is possible to produce a competitive Node.js application whose entire stack will comfortably rest on various frameworks, tools and libraries developed by TJ — and TJ alone.”— kelas, medium.com
“One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there’s nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing th…”— Matt Mullenweg, memeburn.com