Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management. Yarn: Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management. Fast: Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever. Reliable: Using a detailed, but concise, lockfile format, and a deterministic algorithm for installs, Yarn is able to guarantee that an install that worked on one system will work exactly the same way on any other system. Secure: Yarn uses checksums to verify the integrity of every installed package before its code is executed.