How to install/use corepack?

[rbirkgit]

I cannot find any docs/instructions of how to start using corepack.

I have been using yarn 3.x for some time and wanted to update to 4.x and try out corepack. I enabled it with corepack enable and then tried yarn set version stable and yarn install

It downloaded 4.0.1 to my local folder and not using corepack. This is what yarn install outputs.

➤ YN0048: Automatically removed core plugins that are now builtins 👍
➤ YN0087: Migrated your project to the latest Yarn version 🚀

I cannot for the life of me understand how to enable and start using corepack. I think the yarn docs could be improved in this area.

[forcemagic]

Hi!

I believe that the documentation at the official repo and at Node.js is quite good, quality-wise.

By running yarn set version stable, yarn downloads yarn@stable and puts it in your .yarn folder. In order to use a global and modern yarn, try running corepack use yarn@stable as described in the docs, but make sure to remove the yarnPath directive from .yarnrc.yml as that will still allow yarn to resolve to a the workspace version.

For me, deleting .yarn/releases/* and removing yarnPath from yarnrc worked just fine with the command above, and now corepack uses yarn 4.0.2. Make sure you have packageManager properly set in your package.json! (Corepack does this for you afaik)

Hope this helps!