In this tutorial we will show you how to install Yarn on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Yarn is a adavanced package management tool for Javascript applications mostly used for Node.js applications. Yarn is compatible with npm used for installing, configuring, updating and removing npm packages. It helps to solve problems with npm like network connectivity issues, speeding up the installation process etc.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Yarn on a CentOS 8 server.
Install Yarn on CentOS 8
Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
1 2 | sudodnfdnfall sudodnfupdate |
Step 2. Installing Node.js.
Install Yarn requires install Node.js on your server, now we install Node.js using following command:
1 | sudodnfinstall@nodejs |
Enable the Yarn repository and import the repository’s GPG key:
1 2 | curl--silent--locationhttps://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo sudorpm--importhttps://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/pubkey.gpg |
Once the repository is added, you can install Yarn, by running:
1 | sudodnfinstallyarn |
Now, check the Yarn version:
1 | yarn--version |
Create a new Yarn project use yarn init:
1 | yarninitmy_yarn_zaskia |
Adding dependency:
1 | yarnadd[package_name] |
Upgrading dependency:
1 2 | yarnupgrade[package_name] yarnupgrade[package_name]@[version_or_tag] |
To install all the dependencies of an existing project that are specified in the package.json file run:
1 | yarn |
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Yarn. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Yarn on CentOS 8 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Yarn website.
