In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Yarn on an Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud VPS, as well as go over some of the basics with using Yarn.
Yarn is a Javascript package manager, serving as an alternative to NPM. It is an open-source project and was built by a team at Facebook. There are many advantages when using Yarn, such as:
- Offline Installation
- Faster download, packages are installed in parallel
- Support for multiple registries
As you can see, the interesting feature is the offline installation. Once you have installed a package, it will be cached and we can create another project from scratch without being connected to the internet, which in turn will save our bandwidth usage.
Usually, a project requires some dependencies and every time we install them to start a project, the “npm install” command would consume your bandwidth. When using Yarn, the download is done just once. Let’s begin installing Yarn.
SQLite is a software library that provides a relational database management system (RDBMS). It can work as a database engine for small sized websites as well as large websites and projects, and it comes with a lot of useful features. The maximum size of a SQLite database is about 140 terabytes, making it future proof as well. Used by millions of users around the world, including some of the well-known companies such as Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft and others, it is the most widely deployed database engine. Let’s begin with the installation.
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The ELK Stack is a combination of four open-source tools which together form a log management tool. The ELK Stack is a platform that helps in deep searching, analyzing, and visualizing the log generated from different machines. The install process is straightforward, so let’s begin. First though, we will go over a few key details regarding what makes up an ELK stack.
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