yarn is a Command Line Node package manager alternative to npm.

Usage

# Install the dependencies
yarn

# Add a new dependency
yarn add react

# Add a new dev dependency
yarn add -D vitest

# Remove a dependency
yarn remove lodash

# Run a Node script
yarn dev

In yarn, unlike npm, there is no equivalent of npx. To run a binary from your node modules, the command is just yarn.

yarn vitepress build docs

Installation

Preferred installation of yarn is through a seperate binary called Corepack. This comes with all Node versions beyond v16.10.

# Enable Corepack (Node >= v16.10)
corepack enable

# Install Corepack (Node < v16.10)
npm install -g corepack