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Browser automation frameworks–like Puppeteer, Selenium, Marionette, and Nightmare.js–strive to provide rich APIs for configuring and interacting with web browsers. These generally work quite well, but you’re inevitably going to end up running into API limitations if you do a lot of testing or web scraping. You might find yourself wanting to conceal the fact that you’re using a headless browser, extract image resources from a web page, set the seed for Math.
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But Isn’t Yarn the Best Node Package Manager? If you’re only comparing it to npm, then the answer is unequivocally yes. Yarn is generally much faster than npm and gives you deterministic builds by default, built-in integrity checking, license management tools, and a host of other goodies. Despite all of that, I still usually don’t use yarn.
I avoid yarn for one simple reason: disk space usage. I feel like a bit of a curmudgeon here, but I find it a little absurd that it can easily take 100 MB, or more, to store a project consisting of a couple hundred lines of JavaScript if you want to use modern tooling (e.
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