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Is there a way to have Pulumi use Yarn out the gate rather than have it boot strap an initial project with NPM? I dont like having to clean out the npm stuff when I switch to Yarn.

you can always create your `Pulumi.yaml` yourself and then manually create the project using yarn

like in the project folder before running pulumi init?

yeah, all `pulumi new` does is download the template from here: <https://github.com/pulumi/templates> and then `npm install` to grab your deps

I think you can set `PULUMI_PREFER_YARN=true` in your `.bashrc` / `.zshrc`  whichever you use

ty ty, I wonder if I can do the same with powershell

`$env:PULUMI_PREFER_YARN = true`  I believe

or might be `True`  - been a while since I used powershell :smile:

Yeah, that's what I was gonna try. I'll add that to my $PROFILE for the next project 

:thumbsup: awesome, hope that solves it for you

I have a bunch of customer functions for setting azure backends and stuff already in there, so I'll just put in with the other pulumi settings 

yeah thats what we do, we set our backends, region etc with functions and just set prefer yarn to true

speaking of which, is there a Pulumi doc on all the env vars? Ive been looking for it

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/environment-variables/>

just be aware pulumi has difficulty w/ function serialization w/ plug and play package managers. yarn 2 ("berry") and pnpm both have this problem