Announcing Yarn 1.0

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This post announces the 1.0 release of Yarn, a JavaScript package manager that Meta has adopted across many of its major codebases (Facebook app, Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp). It highlights Yarn's impact on reducing install times, improving stability, and enabling large-scale dependency management. Key new features introduced in Yarn 1.0, such as Yarn Workspaces for monorepos, auto-merging of lockfiles, and selective version resolutions, are detailed. The post emphasizes the significant community involvement in Yarn's development and Meta's role in adopting and contributing to this critical developer tool, showcasing a broader trend of Meta leveraging and shaping open-source developer infrastructure.