NVM & Node.js - Recommended install for all users

Question

is there a recommended install for nvm so all users can use it? i cannot find anything on the web regarding this.

this is what i did

• installed nvm in a

Answer 1

Since LJHarb recommends not installing this globally, I decided to create a script to install nvm when you login to the server. I needed this as I had several users setup that may login, but needed access to pm2 (to monitor one of our applications).

Create the script in /etc/profile.d/ (named nvm.sh for example):

#!/bin/bash
NODE_VER=6.2.2
if [ ! -f ~/.nvm/nvm.sh ]; then
    # May need to be updated with the latest nvm release
    wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
fi
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
if ! command -v node | grep -q $NODE_VER; then
    echo "Node is not installed"
    nvm install $NODE_VER
    nvm alias default $NODE_VER
fi

For our application, we needed pm2 shared between users:

if ! command -v pm2 &>/dev/null; then
    echo "pm2 not installed"
    npm install -g pm2
fi
# Share pm2 configuration between users
alias pm2='env HOME=/opt/sora pm2'