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Yarn and Webpack integration is already changing my life (for the better). Documentation on both still sucks however. In particular the inclusion of yarn and webpack represent a significant change in development workflows that they've not really outlined yet.

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I haven't really been following yarn or web pack. Can you give an example of how it changed your life?

Using npm alone is like using bundler without a Gemfile.lock. If one person does `npm install` today, and a new teammate does `npm install` in a month, the new teammate will install different versions. With yarn, there is a yarn.lock to make sure everyone gets the same versions when they run `yarn install`.

Also, yarn is way faster.

There is npm shrinkwrap, but the yarn folks will tell you yarn is better.

There is ${some_random_lib} to solve this problem? Yawn! Use Yarn, it comes baked in.

Thanks for the analogy. I am now update-to-date w/ 3 years of JS churn :)

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