I'm working with Yarn v0.16.1. If I understand correctly (according to the documentation), yarn global add <package>
should be the equivalent of npm install -g <package>
. However, when I run the example in the docs (with create-react-app
), the command runs successfully but create-react-app
is then not available from the command line. Here's the output:
$ yarn global add create-react-app
$ yarn global v0.16.1
[1/4] š Resolving packages...
[2/4] š Fetching packages...
[3/4] š Linking dependencies...
[4/4] š Building fresh packages...
success Installed [email protected] with binaries:
- create-react-app
āØ Done in 3.22s.
$ create-react-app --help
-bash: create-react-app: command not found
Doing a global install with npm has the expected result, and everything works. What am I missing with yarn?
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.