Ionic-framework: Using Yarn Instead of Npm for Ionic

[aswinmohanme]

Ionic version: (check one with "x")
[ ] 1.x
[x ] 2.x

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[x ] feature request
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Npm is super slow and super awesome at testing the patience of a developer. It would be nice if Ionic switched to Yarn ( the faster alternative package manager).

React has already did that and they are happy about it https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2016/11/08/introducing-button-yarn-and-a-public-roadmap.html

Thanks.

[jgw96]

Hello! Thanks for the feature request. I'm going to move this issue over to our internal list of feature requests for evaluation. We are continually prioritizing all requests that we receive with outstanding issues. We are extremely grateful for your feedback, but it may not always be our next priority. I'll copy the issue back to this repository when we have begun implementation. Thanks!

[jgw96]

This issue was moved to driftyco/ionic-feature-requests#123

[aswinmohanme]

Thanks

[vhbsouza]

@jgw96 this driftyco/ionic-feature-requests#123 url is 404 ... Where can I follow this thread?

[gianpaj]

looks like this is done now
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/commit/5107a6616f2aa8a0971065a44f4f0c7a24d725f9
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/commit/8573ff20c02563343c11a19645df6566f58c8bcd

if you run ionic on >= 3.4.0, you'll see an option --yarn to enable that. Though not sure if it helps for an existing project. probably ionic it runs yarn instead of npm only when u start a project.

But since npm 5 has a package-lock.json and it's faster, not sure if yarn is such a big deal.

[rafael-neri]

How to install ionic using Yarn.

Alternative 1:
ionic config set -g yarn true

Alternative 2: (Only Ubuntu)
https://gist.github.com/rafael-neri/f24e328a123e2585bbabce135a787952

[rungissan]

ionic config set -g yarn true

[Mobiletainment]

With Ionic 4 and Angular CLI v6+ you can use ng config -g cli.packageManager yarn.

[dwieeb]

Along with configuring the Angular CLI as @Mobiletainment said, with Ionic CLI 4 you have to do this:

ionic config set -g npmClient yarn

This isn't really documented, but I'd be happy to accept PRs if something isn't working properly.

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