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Can you explain how lockfiles work in npm and yarn, and why my teammates keep running into dependency resolution conflicts on our senior project?

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Can you explain how lockfiles work in npm and yarn, and why my teammates keep running into dependency resolution conflicts on our senior project?
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npm package-lock.json npm ci official documentation package lock behaviorGoogle ↗
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Yarn lockfile yarn install immutable frozen-lockfile official documentationGoogle ↗
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