Install Needed YARN and Gulp Tools

All Varbase components are using Yarn, and Gulp to bring in number of development dependencies.

Make sure to install the following tools before any development.

Install sed and gawk

Helps with string replace and re-naming files.

sudo apt install -y sed gawk;

Install npm and nodejs

Helps getting more development tools.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs
sudo apt install build-essential

curl -L https://npmjs.com/install.sh | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install npm

Install Yarn

Install Yarn as a global by npm

sudo npm install -g yarn

Step 1: Clean the Slate

rm -rf ~/.yarn
mkdir -p ~/.yarn/releases

Step 2: Direct Download

curl -L https://repo.yarnpkg.com/4.9.3/packages/yarnpkg-cli/bin/yarn.js -o ~/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.3.cjs
chmod +x ~/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.3.cjs

Step 3: Configuration

Create or update ~/.yarnrc.yml:

echo "yarnPath: /home/$USER/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.3.cjs" > ~/.yarnrc.yml

Step 4: Verification

yarn --version

Install Gulp

Helps in managing tasks when compiling SASS/SCSS to CSS

sudo npm install gulp-cli -g
sudo npm install gulp -D