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Pros of npm
Pros of RequireJS
Pros of Yarn
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    Best package management system for javascript
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    Open-source
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    Great community
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    More packages than rubygems, pypi, or packagist
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    Nice people matter
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    As fast as yarn but really free of facebook
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    Audit feature
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    Good following
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    Super fast
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    Stability
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    Open source
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    Modular script loader
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    Asynchronous
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    Great for AMD
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    Fast
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    Free
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    Incredibly fast
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    Easy to use
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    Open Source
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    Can install any npm package
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    Works where npm fails
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    Workspaces
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    Incomplete to run tasks
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    Fast

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Cons of npm
Cons of RequireJS
Cons of Yarn
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    Problems with lockfiles
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    Bad at package versioning and being deterministic
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    Node-gyp takes forever
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    Super slow
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      Sends data to facebook
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      Should be installed separately
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      Cannot publish to registry other than npm

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    What is 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.

    What is 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.

    What is Yarn?

    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.

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    gulp
    Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
    Apache Maven
    Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
    Bower
    Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
    NuGet
    A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
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    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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