Configuration

Configuring your package

Yarn looks for package.json files to identify each package and configure the behavior of yarn while running inside that package.

An example configuration for the pet-kitten package, which would be found at pet-kitten/package.json:

{
  "name": "pet-kitten",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "main": "pet.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "hand": "1.0.0"
  }
}

Use yarn.lock to pin your dependencies

Yarn also uses a yarn.lock file in the root of your project to make dependency resolution fast and reliable. You never need to touch this file, yarn owns it and will change it when managing dependencies.

To make sure your app works consistently, you should always save the yarn.lock file in your code repository.