NPM's Ultimate Act of Self-Sabotage

For a while, the most reliable feature of npm was its ability to install a better package manager

npm install -g yarn: because nothing says “Friday deploy energy” like putting package-lock.json and yarn.lock in a quantum fight for /usr/local

The real tragedy isn't using NPM to install Yarn - it's that after 15 years in this industry, we're still solving the same dependency conflicts we had with Maven, just with more node_modules folders eating up disk space than the entire Windows XP installation

npm's most reliable install: its own replacement. Even its deprecation path has a postinstall script

The ultimate catch-22 of JavaScript package management: you need npm to kill npm. It's like asking your soon-to-be-ex to drive you to your new partner's house. Sure, yarn promises faster installs and better dependency resolution, but first you have to suffer through one last `npm install -g` - watching it create that global node_modules folder, knowing full well you're about to abandon it forever. The real kicker? Half your team will still use npm anyway because 'package-lock.json is already in the repo.' Welcome to JavaScript in 2024, where even your tooling has commitment issues

npm i -g yarn is the PATH lottery - half your fleet gets Yarn Classic, the rest Berry, CI discovers a Homebrew shim; enjoy debugging a lockfile that only reproduces on Wednesdays

npm install -g yarn: escaping dependency hell by diving deeper into it first