19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Yarn first-hand: 6 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched our monorepo from yarn classic to pnpm and the install speeds have been night and day.”
regret · production · keyworks · 2022-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for our project once we moved to yarn it just works, we have not touched the config in close to a year”
endorse · production · ivankolev · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to yarn and never looked back.”
endorse · production · royjacobs · 2018-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My one complaint (and it's more a complaint with YARN) is that it can be quite difficult to get your hands on logs when your workflows fail.”
regret · production · jodison · 2018-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we switched to Yarn. Uncached install took about 2-3 minutes, and cached install would finish in seconds.”
endorse · production · alayek · 2017-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to yarn and shaved 12 minutes off our CI builds. It's been fantastic.”
endorse · production · X-Istence · 2017-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The killer feature for us was a more maintainable lock file.”
endorse · production · leipert · 2017-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to yarn a while ago due to performance issues and it seems to be resolved... we have no intention to go back”
endorse · production · eknkc · 2017-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced Yarn Classic with Bun for package management”
neutral · production · linkage · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember running `yarn install` before we switched to `yarn 2` used to get us some absolutely insane number of packages being fetched”
neutral · production · mplanchard · 2022-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use dependency and code scanning (yarn audit, sonarcloud, sonarcube etc)”
neutral · production · zaitanz · 2021-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was happy with Pip until I spent time in the NPM/Yarn world.”
neutral · personal · Humphrey · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“runs dependency installation (yarn install, etc.)”
neutral · production · michelledepeil · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“abbr -a y yarn abbr -a m make”
neutral · personal · ludwigvan · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use yarn workspaces to orchestrate how these packages depend on each other.”
neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even the tools we use to make web parts now are React, Yeoman, webpack, Yarn, Sass etc.”
neutral · production · grumblepeet · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the build process changed with bower being replaced by yarn”
neutral · production · pluma · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I thought yarn would solve some of these issues, but they still kill our dev team and halt all work”
neutral · production · efficax · 2017-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Here's a post that an engineer on my team wrote about why we switched from NPM to Yarn”
neutral · production · kt9 · 2017-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?