When trying to install Laravel Mix, it decides to bring in dependencies using npm.
Is it possible to tell it to use yarn instead?
Specifically, it's this command that's pulling in dependencies.
node_modules/.bin/webpack --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js
I'm afraid it doesn't look like this is possible. I have just been looking into this myself because I use Yarn to manage my project dependencies and also noticed that Mix was forcing the use of NPM.
https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/issues/2196
It turns out there was a conscious decision to exclusively use NPM. It seems that Mix previously catered for both package managers until this commit https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/commit/adf6524efddf1f8a5ef659e4bf801ba0adbbe369
If Mix has been installing its required dependencies with NPM then I have taken the following steps via command line:
rm -rf package-lock.json (Delete package-lock file)rm -rf node_modules (Delete node_modules directory)yarn (Reinstall updated dependencies with Yarn)I have just been upgrading dependencies in a project and I upgraded to Laravel Mix version 6.0.13. I found that Mix started to automatically install dependencies with Yarn. Therefore, the new solution is to upgrade to version 6 if you can.
If you decide to upgrade then please review this documentation in the process https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/blob/628f6062cceb77610b1813e3179abcbd043a4642/UPGRADE.md