# Kibana Plugin helpers command not found in plugin development **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 20, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733 "2018-12-20T16:58:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aaronoah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaronoah/32/27950_2.png) [@aaronoah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaronoah)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733/1 "2018-12-20T16:58:43Z")
Hi, Kibana community, I ran into an issue when porting a new version of my calendar visualization plugin > **[aaronoah/kibana\_calendar\_vis](https://github.com/aaronoah/kibana_calendar_vis)** > > This plugin gives a calendar heatmap visualization in Kibana Visualize app - aaronoah/kibana\_calendar\_vis for Kibana master branch. I followed the doc here: > **[elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers)** > > :bar\_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch - elastic/kibana It seems that `yarn add --dev link:../../kibana/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers` does not help and after I run `yarn kbn bootstrap` and there was an error when I ran `yarn test`: ```auto yarn run v1.10.1 $ yarn test:browser && yarn test:jest && yarn test:functionalTests $ plugin-helpers test:browser /bin/sh: plugin-helpers: command not found error Command failed with exit code 127. info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command. error Command failed with exit code 1. info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command. ``` I found `yarn kbn bootstrap` skips the dependency of `@kbn/plugin-helpers`: ... Installing dependencies in [kibana]: $ node ./preinstall\_check warning package-lock.json found. Your project contains lock files generated by tools other than Yarn. It is advised not to mix package managers in order to avoid resolution inconsistencies caused by unsynchronized lock files. To clear this warning, remove package-lock.json. [1/5] 🔍 Validating package.json... [2/5] 🔍 Resolving packages... success Already up-to-date. Skipping workspace project: @elastic/datemath Skipping workspace project: @elastic/eslint-config-kibana Skipping workspace project: @elastic/eslint-plugin-kibana-custom Skipping workspace project: @kbn/babel-code-parser Skipping workspace project: @kbn/babel-preset Skipping workspace project: @kbn/config-schema Skipping workspace project: @kbn/dev-utils Skipping workspace project: @kbn/es-query Skipping workspace project: @kbn/es Skipping workspace project: @kbn/eslint-import-resolver-kibana Skipping workspace project: @kbn/eslint-plugin-license-header Skipping workspace project: @kbn/i18n Skipping workspace project: @kbn/interpreter Skipping workspace project: @kbn/plugin-generator Skipping workspace project: @kbn/plugin-helpers Skipping workspace project: @kbn/pm Skipping workspace project: @kbn/system-loader Skipping workspace project: @kbn/test-subj-selector Skipping workspace project: @kbn/test Skipping workspace project: @kbn/ui-framework Skipping workspace project: kbn\_tp\_custom\_visualizations Skipping workspace project: kbn\_tp\_sample\_app\_plugin Skipping workspace project: kbn\_tp\_sample\_panel\_action Skipping workspace project: kbn\_tp\_visualize\_embedding Skipping workspace project: x-pack Skipping workspace project: infra .... In this setup, I used the same versions of node and yarn with Kibana master branch. Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733/2 "2018-12-20T20:36:19Z")
@spalger Any idea here? ---
**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733/3 "2018-12-20T22:53:09Z")
with `link:` style dependencies yarn doesn't include the necessary `.bin` symlinks, but we patch that behavior when you run `yarn kbn bootstrap`. When you ran `yarn add --dev ...` yarn destroys the patch that we add, so you have to run `yarn kbn bootstrap` again to patch the bin scripts. Because of this and other minor gotchas I recommend editing the `package.json` file directly rather than using `yarn add ...` and then run `yarn kbn bootstrap` to install/remove dependencies from your plugin. ---
**Author:** ![aaronoah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaronoah/32/27950_2.png) [@aaronoah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaronoah)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733/4 "2018-12-21T02:25:52Z")
I tried to run only the `yarn kbn bootstrap` under my project, it didn't fetch node\_modules under the project and `plugin-helpers` still not found. The `yarn kbn bootstrap` command only still skips the dependencies as shown in the above comment. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-helpers-command-not-found-in-plugin-development/161733/5 "2019-01-18T02:25:58Z")
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