yarn tag

yarn tag

Add, remove, or list tags on a package.

What are tags?

Distribution tags (or dist-tags) are a way of marking published versions of your package with a label. Users of your package can install it using this label instead of a version number.

For example, if you had a stable release channel and a canary release channel, you could use tags as a way to allow the user to type:

yarn add your-package-name@stable
yarn add your-package-name@canary

Different tags have different meanings:

  • latest: The current version of the package
  • stable: The latest stable release of the package, normally the same as latest unless you have Long-term Support (LTS)
  • beta: A release before becoming latest and/or stable, used to sha