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  5. Laravel Forge vs Yarn

Laravel Forge vs Yarn

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Overview

Laravel Forge
Laravel Forge
Stacks232
Followers273
Votes4
Yarn
Yarn
Stacks28.2K
Followers13.5K
Votes151
GitHub Stars41.5K
Forks2.7K

Laravel Forge vs Yarn: What are the differences?

Laravel Forge: Painless PHP Servers by Laravel. Provision, host, and deploy PHP applications on AWS, DigitalOcean, and Linode; Yarn: A new package manager for JavaScript. Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.

Laravel Forge can be classified as a tool in the "Deployment as a Service" category, while Yarn is grouped under "Front End Package Manager".

Yarn is an open source tool with 36.2K GitHub stars and 2.22K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Yarn's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Yarn has a broader approval, being mentioned in 623 company stacks & 529 developers stacks; compared to Laravel Forge, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Advice on Laravel Forge, Yarn

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Apr 23, 2019

Needs adviceonNode.jsNode.jsnpmnpmYarnYarn

From a StackShare Community member: “I’m a freelance web developer (I mostly use Node.js) and for future projects I’m debating between npm or Yarn as my default package manager. I’m a minimalist so I hate installing software if I don’t need to- in this case that would be Yarn. For those who made the switch from npm to Yarn, what benefits have you noticed? For those who stuck with npm, are you happy you with it?"

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zen-li
zen-li

Apr 24, 2019

ReviewonYarnYarn

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I am not sure about the performance of the latest version of npm, whether it is different from my understanding of it below. Because I use npm very rarely when I had the following knowledge.

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I use Yarn because, first, yarn is the first tool to lock the version. Second, although npm also supports the lock version, when you use npm to lock the version, and then use package-lock.json on other systems, package-lock.json Will be modified. You understand what I mean, when you deploy projects based on Git...

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Oleksandr
Oleksandr

Senior Software Engineer at joyn

Dec 7, 2019

Decided

As we have to build the application for many different TV platforms we want to split the application logic from the device/platform specific code. Previously we had different repositories and it was very hard to keep the development process when changes were done in multiple repositories, as we had to synchronize code reviews as well as merging and then updating the dependencies of projects. This issues would be even more critical when building the project from scratch what we did at Joyn. Therefor to keep all code in one place, at the same time keeping in separated in different modules we decided to give a try to monorepo. First we tried out lerna which was fine at the beginning, but later along the way we had issues with adding new dependencies which came out of the blue and were not easy to fix. Next round of evolution was yarn workspaces, we are still using it and are pretty happy with dev experience it provides. And one more advantage we got when switched to yarn workspaces that we also switched from npm to yarn what improved the state of the lock file a lot, because with npm package-lock file was updated every time you run npm install, frequent updates of package-lock file were causing very often merge conflicts. So right now we not just having faster dependencies installation time but also no conflicts coming from lock file.

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Detailed Comparison

Laravel Forge
Laravel Forge
Yarn
Yarn

Provision, host, and deploy PHP applications on AWS, DigitalOcean, and Linode.

Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
41.5K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
2.7K
Stacks
232
Stacks
28.2K
Followers
273
Followers
13.5K
Votes
4
Votes
151
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Simply to use
Cons
  • 2
    Monthly subscription
Pros
  • 85
    Incredibly fast
  • 22
    Easy to use
  • 13
    Open Source
  • 11
    Can install any npm package
  • 8
    Works where npm fails
Cons
  • 16
    Facebook
  • 7
    Sends data to facebook
  • 4
    Should be installed separately
  • 3
    Cannot publish to registry other than npm
Integrations
No integrations available
JavaScript
JavaScript
npm
npm

What are some alternatives to Laravel Forge, Yarn?

npm

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

RequireJS

RequireJS

RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

Browserify

Browserify

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy helps teams to manage releases, automate deployments, and operate applications with automated runbooks. It's free for small teams.

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.

Component

Component

Component's philosophy is the UNIX philosophy of the web - to create a platform for small, reusable components that consist of JS, CSS, HTML, images, fonts, etc. With its well-defined specs, using Component means not worrying about most frontend problems such as package management, publishing components to a registry, or creating a custom build process for every single app.

Distelli

Distelli

Build, test, and deploy your code from GitHub and BitBucket (or no repository at all) to any server in the world regardless of provider. Distelli customers iterate and ship faster with complete transparency.

Launchdeck

Launchdeck

Deploy code from git to your server the fast and easy way. Launchdeck is our answer to the complicated process of deployment. It’s an automated deployment tool with a super-clear user interface and various smart features.

Verdaccio

Verdaccio

A simple, zero-config-required local private npm registry. Comes out of the box with its own tiny database, and the ability to proxy other registries (eg. npmjs.org), caching the downloaded modules along the way.

pip

pip

It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.

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