Where does Yarn add global binaries on Windows?

Question

I'm on Windows 7, and I tried to install typescript with yarn:

yarn global add typescript

success Installed typescript@2.0.6 with binaries:
  - tsc
  - tsserver
Done in 11.59s.

After successful installation, I type tsc in the command line, only to find that the command is not available.

yarn tsc
yarn tsc v0.16.1
error Command "tsc" not found.

Get config:

yarn config get prefix
C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin

I checked this path: there's no tsc or tsserver exectuables. Where is it?

Possible duplicate of [Yarn global installs to current directory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40330759/yarn-global-installs-to-current-directory) — rofrol, Nov 16 '16 at 10:54
Were you running `tsc` or `yarn tsc`? I would have expected you would run the former, not the latter. — Aurora0001, Nov 23 '16 at 15:13
@JunleLi Thanks. Glad to hear that this is fixed by the official yarn team. It seems that yarn won't play well with nodist on Windows. — Nick, Nov 24 '16 at 06:51
Thank you for pointing it out. Actually, I tried both. Maybe Linux/Mac would saved me a lot of trouble. But I am just learn programming as a hobby, could not left Windows for daily office use. — Nick, Nov 24 '16 at 06:54

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '18 at 15:23

Answering the actual question and using the default directory, rather than changing it:

Yarn installs to ${env:LOCALAPPDATA}\yarn\bin

You can see this with:

yarn global bin

For example, after installing gulp:

$ ls ${env:LOCALAPPDATA}\yarn\bin


    Directory: C:\Users\mike\AppData\Local\yarn\bin


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        13-Aug-18   4:11 PM            348 gulp
-a----        13-Aug-18   4:11 PM             57 gulp.cmd

To ensure it's in your path, add this to your $profile (assuming you have PSCX ):

Add-PathVariable ${env:LOCALAPPDATA}\yarn\bin

score -2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 13 '18 at 15:12

-2

Check it with

yarn config get prefix

It works now:

mkdir ~/yarn-global
yarn config set prefix ~/yarn-global

Add ~/yarn-global to your PATH env var.

edited Aug 13 '18 at 15:12

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Where does Yarn add global binaries on Windows?

2 Answers2

Answering the actual question and using the default directory, rather than changing it: