til/unix/fix-unlinked-node-binaries-with-asdf.md

Fix Unlinked Node Binaries With asdf

You're using asdf to manage your version(s) of node.js. You have some packages globally installed with yarn that are available as executable binaries. When you install and switch to a new version of Node, those global binaries no longer work.

Even uninstalling and re-installing those particular packages doesn't necesarily fix it. That's because broken symlinks have been left behind.

asdf can help fix this with its reshim command:

$ asdf reshim <name> <version>

For instance, if you want to start using 14.4.0, you can reshim like this:

$ asdf reshim nodejs 14.4.0

This will re-sync all the symlinks so that you are able to access and run those binaries again.