How to persist yarn version to classic

[garysassano]

I installed yarn 4.0.2 using volta, but whenever I execute yarn set version classic, it reverts back to version 4.0.2 the next time I launch my IDE.

[favna]

Any particular reason you want to stick to Yarn classic? Yarn berry is much faster and much more feature rich. Yarn classic is also deprecated and not recommended for use anymore by the Yarn team. If by chance you want to use Yarn classic because of pnp mode that Yarn berry had, you can very simply configure Yarn to use node_modules with yarn config set nodeLinker node-modules, see https://yarnpkg.com/configuration/yarnrc#nodeLinker. Once you have configured the nodeLinker, you probably also want to enable global cache with yarn config set enableGlobalCache true (https://yarnpkg.com/configuration/yarnrc#enableGlobalCache) and once that is done Yarn berry will function just like Yarn classic for how it installs dependencies except for all the advantages of speed that Yarn berry brings with it.

[garysassano]

@favna No particular reason, other than not using yarn at all if not for building some open-source projects and all those projects are using classic version.