yarn global add create-react-app doesn’t work with nvm

[stevensacks]

At the request of @gaearon:

https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global

The official Yarn documentation states that you can install (and maintain) your create-react-app project with yarn. However, it doesn't actually work. Calling create-react-app after a global yarn install does nothing. CRA currently only works from a global npm install.

It would be great if yarn and CRA went together like chocolate and peanut butter.

[gaearon]

Works for me:

gaearon@gaearon-mbp ~> yarn global add create-react-app
Using globally installed version of Yarn
yarn global v0.17.8
warning No license field
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
[4/4] 📃  Building fresh packages...
success Installed create-react-app@0.6.0 with binaries:
      - create-react-app
warning No license field
✨  Done in 2.99s.

gaearon@gaearon-mbp ~> create-react-app ~/p/hmmm
Creating a new React app in /Users/gaearon/p/hmmm.

Installing packages. This might take a couple minutes.
Installing react-scripts from npm...

Can you specify more details?

[stevensacks]

I installed yarn using npm. How did you install yarn? I installed node using nvm. I'm using node 4.5.

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 at 23:24 Dan Abramov ***@***.***> wrote: Works for me: ***@***.*** ~> yarn global add create-react-app Using globally installed version of Yarn yarn global v0.17.8 warning No license field [1/4] 🔍 Resolving packages... [2/4] 🚚 Fetching packages... [3/4] 🔗 Linking dependencies... [4/4] 📃 Building fresh packages... success Installed ***@***.*** with binaries: - create-react-app warning No license field ✨ Done in 2.99s. ***@***.*** ~> create-react-app ~/p/hmmm Creating a new React app in /Users/gaearon/p/hmmm. Installing packages. This might take a couple minutes. Installing react-scripts from npm... Can you specify more details? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1118 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJ5zNVlUQbPEgCcSuaDn8EuVA-8kvV3ks5rDYcQgaJpZM4K_zbg> .

[gaearon]

I'm using a FB laptop so it's preinstalled here. I'll try again at home.

[existentialism]

I was able to repro this...

Initial setup:
yarn@0.17.8 (installed via npm)
node@6.9.1 (installed via nvm)

Switched to node 4 via nvm, yarn global add create-react-app, and got:

-bash: create-react-app: command not found

@stevensacks this at all similar to your situation? If you do a global remove, then global add, does it work?

Likely related to yarnpkg/yarn#1151 (comment)?

[newswim]

perhaps try installing with brew, as per this guide?

[stevensacks]

Installing via brew is strongly recommended against.

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[gaearon]

Maybe I can't reproduce because I'm using n instead of nvm.
Will need to try with nvm.

[guilhermecvm]

@stevensacks why would be not recommended to use brew?

[shubheksha]

I can reproduce this as well. Installed Yarn via npm and node via npm. Also doesn't work for node installed via brew.

[gaearon]

Likely yarnpkg/yarn#1151, we need to wait for this to be fixed on Yarn side.
I'm already tracking all Yarn issues in #1189 so I'll close this one as it's unactionable for us.

[zegilooo]

This solved it for me (on Ubuntu 16.04)
export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin

[kushalj]

Hi, so this looks like a chain of crappy bugs cluster-munging together... For me I think it's the result of using NVM and Yarn together which might be confusing Yarn a little.

I deleted my yarn (I'm on Ubuntu on this laptop) and reinstalled using "don't give me extra things"

sudo apt-get remove yarn
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends yarn

Then found that yarn global bin is /usr/local/bin but the actual location is ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin or something.

Yarn may not fix this for NVM anytime soon but this NPM utility shortcuts the manual file linking:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/fix-yarn-global-packages

(not my tool, just just found it looking around)

I then tested location using which create-react-app which gave me /usr/local/bin/create-react-app, finally!

This:
yarn create react-app <name> --scripts-version reason-scripts
then worked and chugged away happily building the app.