Yarn Global not working

I was following a guide that and it used Yarn to install a global dependency. So that’s no problem I’ve been using yarn and it’s great. I hadn’t used it for anything global yet though.

The install ran just fine but the program itself didn’t work. Yarn’s bin path wasn’t in my system path. I think is might be because I installed yarn using homebrew which adds things to a different path. You can see which path yarn adds things to by running

yarn global bin

It gave me

/usr/local/Cellar/node/7.4.0/bin

Hence the homebrew suspicion.

To fix it add the yarn path to your main path in your .zshrc

export PATH=$(yarn global bin):$PATH

And things should work away normally from now on