What is the difference between npm and yarn

First of all both are the package managers that helps download project’s dependencies to your local or server if needed. npm is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment or Node.js.

Full form of npm is Node Package Manager and full form of Yarn is Yet Another Resource Negotiator.

Yarn is just like NPM but with more secure and higher performance. It was developed by Facebook.

Yarn merges are more predictable and cleaner output logs for better understanding.

Yarn has a license checker unline NPM

Yarn fetches dependencies locally during ‘yarn add’ command, assuming it can be present locally.