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

You should add export PATH="$PATH:$(yarn global bin)" to your ~/.bash_profile or whatever you use. It would solve the issue.

Depending on how you installed it, Yarn's global folder varies for some reason. You can follow this issue here.

Answer 2

To reinstall run below.

brew install -g yarn

// Note:(updating homebrew) for Mac users.

brew reinstall yarn

// (if yarn is still not found)

Answer 3

AndrewD gave a great answer, but for those on Windows it's a bit different, especially step 3.

Please do not use the command setx as @Thapedict said. It will remove all your previous paths you had and replace it with only the given directory. If you want to use setx, I think there might be a flag to make it append the existing path variables, but I don't know which one. Using only setx will not append to it.

I would just do System Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables > Edit Path > New > c:\users\YOURUSERNAME\appdata\local\yarn\bin

to make sure you don't remove your previous variables.