feat: always use nodeLinker: node-modules

Author: szymonrybczak

packages/cli/src/commands/init/template.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import copyFiles from '../../tools/copyFiles';
 import replacePathSepForRegex from '../../tools/replacePathSepForRegex';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
+import {getYarnVersionIfAvailable} from '../../tools/yarn';
+import {executeCommand} from '../../tools/packageManager';
 
 export type TemplateConfig = {
   placeholderName: string;
@@ -27,6 +29,15 @@ export async function installTemplatePackage(
     root,
   });
 
+  // React Native doesn't support PnP, so we need to set nodeLinker to node-modules. Read more here: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/issues/27#issuecomment-1772626767
+
+  if (packageManager === 'yarn' && getYarnVersionIfAvailable() !== null) {
+    executeCommand('yarn', ['config ', 'set', 'nodeLinker', 'node-modules'], {
+      root,
+      silent: true,
+    });
+  }
+
   return PackageManager.install([templateName], {
     packageManager,
     silent: true,

packages/cli/src/tools/packageManager.ts

@@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ function configurePackageManager(
   return executeCommand(pm, args, options);
 }
 
-function executeCommand(
+export function executeCommand(
   command: string,
   args: Array<string>,
-  options: Options,
+  options: {
+    root: string;
+    silent?: boolean;
+  },
 ) {
   return execa(command, args, {
     stdio: options.silent && !logger.isVerbose() ? 'pipe' : 'inherit',