How to Install Yarn on CentOS/RHEL 8

Yarn is the package management tool for the Node.js application. It provides a fast and efficient way for package installation on your system. It makes a cache of every downloaded package on your system to re-use them. This tutorial will help you to install Yarn on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 systems.

Prerequsities

• Shell access to CentOS 8 system
• Preinstalled Node.js

Install Yarn on CentOS 8

Yarn package is available to install with NPM. You can simply run the following command to install Yarn globally. Also, remove -g option to install for the current project only.

sudo rpm --import https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/pubkey.gpg
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo

sudo dnf install yarn --disablerepo=AppStream 

After completing the installation, view the installed yarn version using the following command:

yarn --version

1.21.1

Using Yarn on CentOS 8

Here are some basic commands of yarn command-line utility.

• yarn init – Create a new application.
• yarn add – Add a package to use in your current application/package.
• yarn install – Installs all the dependencies defined in a package.json file.
• yarn publish – Publish the package to the package manager.
• yarn remove – Removes an unused package from the current application.