Am running Ubuntu 16.04. I am setting up Flow as per the instructions in the link, however, on the next page (usage), where we are directed to run the command:
flow init
I get the error:
No command found...
Which makes sense as flow was not installed globally, but as a dev-dependency within the existing project directory. They also recommend & I quote:
Flow works best when installed per-project with explicit versioning rather than globally.
So, my question is, am I missing a step in the installation of flow, which is causing the error? Or should I go ahead & yarn add flow globally.
Flow Installation Instructions: https://flow.org/en/docs/install/
Yarn will only install globally if you run # yarn global <add/bin/ls/remove/upgrade> [--prefix]. Using $ yarn add --dev flow-bin as the documentation states will be sufficient. Then, you should run $ yarn run flow.
The full instructions are here, and you can follow it with no problems.
You can also install it using npm instead of yarn:
$ npm install --save flow-bin
To get the flow init command to work you have to install Flow CLI globally, as the local flow binary won't be in your $PATH environment variable. The command is almost the same:
# npm install --global flow-bin
Alternatively you can execute the binary from within your local path. Something like: $ ./node_modules/.bin/flow init