Node.js is an increasingly popular and widely used JavaScript runtime nowadays. One of the important aspects of Node.js is to manage the dependencies among software artefacts. Better dependency management would advocate modularisation and decoupling of software components. Since the dawn of Node.js, several package managers have been developed, notably, npm, anymod (formerly component), volo, ringojs, bower, yarn, pnpm, to name but a few. In this post, we shall walk through the two tools that...
