Yarn global command not working

Question

I\'m working with Yarn v0.16.1. If I understand correctly (according to the documentation), yarn global add should be the equivalent of np

Answer 1

Update Dec 2018

Just updating the path didn't work for me. I had to also set the yarn prefix.

• Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (bionic)
• yarn 1.12.3
• npm v3.5.2
• node v8.10.0
• zsh 5.4.2

Steps

1. Confirm your global bin path

   yarn global bin
   

I got: /home/username/.yarn/bin

2. set yarn prefix:

   make sure your yarn prefix is the parent directory of your bin directory. You can confirm by running

   yarn config get prefix
   

   when I ran this, my prefix was empty, so I set it:

   yarn config set prefix ~/.yarn
   

3. add the following to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc

   export PATH="$PATH:`yarn global bin`"
   

   for zsh users, be sure to add this line to ~/.zshrc

4. restart your shell or start a new one

   bash -l or zsh