Hmm, it looks like they've removed the yarn requirement from Polymer 3. I don't seem to see it anywhere on the Polymer 3 quick start/installation pages <https://www.polymer-project.org/3.0/start/install-3-0>
On Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 8:17:39 AM UTC-4, Mark wrote: > > yarn does not have flat dependencies by default so it most certainly has a > nested dependency tree. It does provide a "flat mode", but imo this is just > a step to allow manual resolution. The problem with Polymer relying on > yarn's flat mode is that it forces lower level dependencies into the flat > tree structure and breaks projects that contain packages that rely on > npm's nested tree structure > <https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/4823>. > > On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 10:30:14 AM UTC-4, Mark wrote: >> >> I was reading Polymer's 3.0 Preview documentation >> <https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2017-08-23-hands-on-30-preview> >> and see that they've announced that yarn is a dependency. >> >> Why? instead of just using NPM 5 >> <https://auth0.com/blog/whats-new-in-node8-and-npm5/>, which does a lot >> of the same things yarn does? >> In the summit, they have said <https://youtu.be/JH6jEcLxJEI?t=8m20s> >> that they needed a package manager to: >> >> 1. Manages dependencies >> 2. Resolves version conflicts >> 3. Supports a flat dependency tree >> 4. Has an active community >> >> >> AFAIK, npm already does this in later versions. So why use yarn which is >> unnecessary? >> I get that yarn may be the hot dependency manager today but a lot of >> people are fine with just using npm. >> > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to polymer-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/25ea32aa-9fde-409c-b07a-81d139a11871%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
