How to change Yarn default packages directory?

Question

When Yarn is used to install dependencies, it puts them in node-modules directory by default.

How can I change this to i.e Laravel resources fo

Answer 1

You can create a .yarnrc file with the following content:

--modules-folder resources

This way every yarn command will have this parameter set.

Answer 2

According to Yarn Docs, you can specify directories in package.json file

{
  "directories": {
    "lib": "path/to/lib/",
    "bin": "path/to/bin/",
    "man": "path/to/man/",
    "doc": "path/to/doc/",
    "example": "path/to/example/"
  }
}

When installing your package, you can specify exact locations to put binary files, man pages, documentation, examples, etc.

Answer 3

yarn install --modules-folder ./resources

UPDATE: Keep an eye on this GitHub Issue as this feature is not quite stable.

UPDATE 2: From Damien's answer below, you can add --install.modules-folder "./resources" to a .yarnrc file so that you don't need to continually pass the commandline argument in for each subsequent invocation. Note that double quotes are required; without those, you will get an Invalid value type 1:25 or similar error.

You can then commit the .yarnrc to source control so that other developers on the project can use the same settings automatically.