Add NodeJS and Yarn version recommendations in CONTRIBUTING.md (#10837)

Co-authored-by: Aaron S <[email protected]>

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ Our work is done directly on Github and PR's are sent to the GitHub repo by core
 
 ## Setting up for local development
 
+The recommended version of Node JS to work with this project is [`16.19.0`](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v16.19.0/) with Yarn version [`1.22.x`](https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+> Note: newer versions of Yarn (2+) remove support for lerna's `--mutex` flag
+> so be sure to use Yarn v1.22.x
+
 This section should get you running with **Amplify JS** and get you familiar with the basics of the codebase. You will need the latest version of [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) on your system and developing locally also requires `yarn` workspaces. You can install it [here](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install#mac-stable).
 
 Start by [forking](https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo) the main branch of [amplify-js](https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js).