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Yarn install generates a yarn.lock file which fetches packages from npmjs.
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Yarn has a few differences from npm. First of all, Yarn caches all installed packages. Yarn is installing the packages simultaneously, and that is why Yarn is faster than NPM. They both download packages from npm repository.
You can try set different registry in .npmrc and .yarnrc. Then yarn add / npm install + private-pakage/public-packge will work. Show activity on this post. For anyone finding this in 2021, yarn now can work with scopes, private registries and auth.
In npm, the npm shrinkwrap command generates a lock file as well, and npm install reads that file before reading package.json, much like how Yarn reads yarn.lock first. The important difference here is that Yarn always creates and updates yarn.lock, while npm doesn’t create one by default and only updates npm-shrinkwrap.json when it exists.
Yarn stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator. The Yarn package manager is an alternative to npm, released by Facebook in October 2016. The original goal of Yarn was to deal with npm drawbacks, such as performance and security issues.
As far as the registries go, there is essentially no difference. According to one of the Yarn devs, they just maintain a server that redirects to NPM's registry so that they can monitor traffic and attempt to speed things up. And if you want to change a registry, you can do so on a per-project basis by editing the "registry" key in your .npmrc or globally with npm config set registry to use whatever endpoint you want to download from. For yarn you can use yarn config set registry <registry-url> with an optional global flag.
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