TIL about yarn resolutions.

Phew it's early. Resolutions are a relatively simple concept that allows you to manage sub dependencies of a project. For example, I have a package face-api.js that depends on @tensorflow/tfjs-core@1.2.2. It also depends on tfjs-image-recognition-base but tfjs-image-recognition-base also requires @tensorflow/tfjs-core but specifies ^1.2.2 and thus resolves to install 1.2.5.

Unfortunately, these two aren't compatible (yeah let's not go there). So, I needed a way to specify that tfjs-image-recoginition-base should be using version 1.2.2 instead of 1.2.5. The documentation leads you to believe that specifying the following will work:

"resolutions": {
    "tfjs-image-recognition-base/@tensorflow/tfjs-core": "1.2.2"
}

However, you need to change that value to **/@tensorflow/tfjs-core. Seems kind of silly and the documentation is kind of unclear. But I think it's because the module is used at a parent level as well. But it works now, and for that I'm glad.