How to create run configuration with Yarn instead of npm in WebStorm 2016.2.3

yarn will be supported in 2016.3 As stated in https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-23737#comment=27-1669437 In WebStorm 2016.3 it will be possible to select yarn package instead of npm: go to Settings | Languages & Frameworks | Node.js and NPM click ellipsis button next to Node.js interpreter to open “Node.js interpreters” dialog Also, installed yarn packages will be available in … Read more

How do I create a React Native project using Yarn?

I think you’re adding global dependencies wrong, and you shouldn’t need to install react-native, globally or locally. react-native init will create a package.json with react-native listed as a dependency. You should be able to install react-native-cli globally with yarn global add react-native-cli, not yarn add global react-native-cli. Here yarn run android command will be used … Read more

Yarn 5x slower on windows

Disabling windows search indexing on your work folder and yarn cache folder as well as disabling windows defender completely or on a folder should give you significant performance boost. I’ve got 30-50% decrease on similar system with SSD drive, originally timings were as yours. Disabling it on Yarn cache folder would also give you some … Read more

What does “Linking Dependencies” during npm / yarn install really do?

When you call yarn install, the following things happen in order: Resolution: Yarn starts resolving dependencies by making requests to the registry and recursively looking up each dependency. Downloading/Fetching: Next, Yarn looks in a global cache directory to see if the package needed has already been downloaded. If it hasn’t, Yarn fetches the tarball for … Read more

How to specify local registry in yarn?

Create an npm (hosted) repository to use as your private registry. I believe you have already done this. Create an npm (proxy) repository pointing to your external repository of choice (https://registry.yarnpkg.com or https://registry.npmjs.org/). Create an npm (group) with your private registry on first position and the proxy registry on second position. Point yarn to your … Read more