diff --git a/packages/create-react-native-library/src/index.ts b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/index.ts
index bb1a78801..3fc532a7b 100644
--- a/packages/create-react-native-library/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/index.ts
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ import ejs from 'ejs';
 import dedent from 'dedent';
 import kleur from 'kleur';
 import yargs from 'yargs';
-import spawn from 'cross-spawn';
 import ora from 'ora';
 import validateNpmPackage from 'validate-npm-package-name';
 import githubUsername from 'github-username';
 import prompts, { type PromptObject } from './utils/prompts';
 import generateExampleApp from './utils/generateExampleApp';
+import { spawn } from './utils/spawn';
 
 const FALLBACK_BOB_VERSION = '0.20.0';
 
@@ -259,12 +259,7 @@ async function create(argv: yargs.Arguments<any>) {
   }
 
   try {
-    const child = spawn('npx', ['--help']);
-
-    await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      child.once('error', reject);
-      child.once('close', resolve);
-    });
+    await spawn('npx', ['--help']);
   } catch (error) {
     // @ts-expect-error: TS doesn't know about `code`
     if (error != null && error.code === 'ENOENT') {
@@ -283,15 +278,8 @@ async function create(argv: yargs.Arguments<any>) {
   let name, email;
 
   try {
-    name = spawn
-      .sync('git', ['config', '--get', 'user.name'])
-      .stdout.toString()
-      .trim();
-
-    email = spawn
-      .sync('git', ['config', '--get', 'user.email'])
-      .stdout.toString()
-      .trim();
+    name = await spawn('git', ['config', '--get', 'user.name']);
+    email = await spawn('git', ['config', '--get', 'user.email']);
   } catch (e) {
     // Ignore error
   }
@@ -497,18 +485,7 @@ async function create(argv: yargs.Arguments<any>) {
       new Promise<string>((resolve) =>
         setTimeout(() => resolve(FALLBACK_BOB_VERSION), 1000)
       ),
-      new Promise<string>((resolve, reject) => {
-        const npm = spawn('npm', [
-          'view',
-          'react-native-builder-bob',
-          'dist-tags.latest',
-        ]);
-
-        npm.stdout?.on('data', (data) => resolve(data.toString().trim()));
-        npm.stderr?.on('data', (data) => reject(data.toString().trim()));
-
-        npm.on('error', (err) => reject(err));
-      }),
+      spawn('npm', ['view', 'react-native-builder-bob', 'dist-tags.latest']),
     ]);
   } catch (e) {
     // Fallback to a known version if we couldn't fetch
@@ -697,10 +674,10 @@ async function create(argv: yargs.Arguments<any>) {
   });
 
   try {
-    spawn.sync('git', ['init'], { cwd: folder });
-    spawn.sync('git', ['branch', '-M', 'main'], { cwd: folder });
-    spawn.sync('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: folder });
-    spawn.sync('git', ['commit', '-m', 'chore: initial commit'], {
+    await spawn('git', ['init'], { cwd: folder });
+    await spawn('git', ['branch', '-M', 'main'], { cwd: folder });
+    await spawn('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: folder });
+    await spawn('git', ['commit', '-m', 'chore: initial commit'], {
       cwd: folder,
     });
   } catch (e) {
diff --git a/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/generateExampleApp.ts b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/generateExampleApp.ts
index b849abc91..e9e73a278 100644
--- a/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/generateExampleApp.ts
+++ b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/generateExampleApp.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
-import spawn from 'cross-spawn';
 import path from 'path';
 import https from 'https';
+import { spawn } from './spawn';
 
 const FILES_TO_DELETE = [
   '__tests__',
@@ -78,26 +78,9 @@ export default async function generateExampleApp({
       : // `npx create-expo-app example --no-install`
         ['create-expo-app@latest', directory, '--no-install'];
 
-  await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const child = spawn('npx', args, {
-      cwd: dest,
-      env: { ...process.env, npm_config_yes: 'true' },
-    });
-
-    let stderr = '';
-
-    child.stderr?.setEncoding('utf8');
-    child.stderr?.on('data', (data) => {
-      stderr += data;
-    });
-
-    child.once('error', reject);
-    child.once('close', resolve);
-    child.once('exit', (code) => {
-      if (code === 1) {
-        reject(new Error(stderr));
-      }
-    });
+  await spawn('npx', args, {
+    cwd: dest,
+    env: { ...process.env, npm_config_yes: 'true' },
   });
 
   // Remove unnecessary files and folders
diff --git a/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/spawn.ts b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/spawn.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..775fe7de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-react-native-library/src/utils/spawn.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import crossSpawn from 'cross-spawn';
+
+export const spawn = async (...args: Parameters<typeof crossSpawn>) => {
+  return new Promise<string>((resolve, reject) => {
+    const child = crossSpawn(...args);
+
+    let stdout = '';
+    let stderr = '';
+
+    child.stdout?.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stdout?.on('data', (data) => {
+      stdout += data;
+    });
+
+    child.stderr?.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stderr?.on('data', (data) => {
+      stderr += data;
+    });
+
+    child.once('error', reject);
+    child.once('close', (code) => {
+      if (code === 0) {
+        resolve(stdout.trim());
+      } else {
+        reject(new Error(stderr.trim()));
+      }
+    });
+  });
+};
diff --git a/packages/react-native-builder-bob/src/targets/typescript.ts b/packages/react-native-builder-bob/src/targets/typescript.ts
index b4d53e0c9..77ec303d1 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-builder-bob/src/targets/typescript.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-builder-bob/src/targets/typescript.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,20 @@ export default async function build({
         );
       }
     } else {
-      tsc = path.resolve(root, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'tsc');
+      const execpath = process.env.npm_execpath;
+      const cli = execpath?.split('/').pop()?.includes('yarn') ? 'yarn' : 'npm';
+
+      if (cli === 'yarn') {
+        const result = spawn.sync('yarn', ['bin', 'tsc'], {
+          stdio: 'pipe',
+          encoding: 'utf-8',
+          cwd: root,
+        });
+
+        tsc = result.stdout.trim();
+      } else {
+        tsc = path.resolve(root, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'tsc');
+      }
 
       if (platform() === 'win32' && !tsc.endsWith('.cmd')) {
         tsc += '.cmd';
@@ -108,7 +121,11 @@ export default async function build({
 
         if (await fs.pathExists(tsc)) {
           report.warn(
-            `Failed to locate 'tsc' in the workspace. Falling back to the globally installed version. Consider adding ${kleur.blue(
+            `Failed to locate ${kleur.blue(
+              'tsc'
+            )} in the workspace. Falling back to the binary found in ${kleur.blue(
+              'PATH'
+            )} at ${kleur.blue(tsc)}. Consider adding ${kleur.blue(
               'typescript'
             )} to your ${kleur.blue(
               'devDependencies'