Yarn and NodeJS LTS With Homebrew

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The last Yarn version in Homebrew uses a non-LTS version (15) of NodeJS as its dependency. If this is an issue for you as it is for me, I just managed to accomplish use Yarn with the latest LTS version of NodeJS.

I created a gist for it and here are the following steps

  • Uninstall Yarn and Node
$ brew uninstall yarn
$ brew uninstall node
  • Install the latest LTS version of Node
$ brew install node@12
  • Create the Symlink for it
$ ln -s /usr/local/opt/node@12 /usr/local/opt/node
  • Install Yarn without its dependencies
$ brew install yarn --ignore-dependencies

And that’s it!

If you want to check the versions of each package, just run

echo "Yarn Version: $(yarn --version)"
echo "Node Version: $(node --version)"

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