Installing Node packages globally without internet connection

Question

I am working on Windows Server 2012 R2, but external internet connection is restricted in my Org. So i can not install any NPM packages on server directly.

I want to install pm2 OR forever packages globally so that all the user profiles(admin and users) can access that from any directory.

Please guide me in this case.

Answer 1

From another pc with internet connection, you can download the source code from github. For example, for pm2 it is : https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

After downloading the source code, you need to look into the package.json file and download all the dependency source code too. ( One easy way to do all of above is to use npm to fetch pm2 in a local directory then copy the pm2 along with all dependencies to a USB)

Transfer files into a directory of your server workstation using USB or any other suitable means.

Add the pm2/bin directory to your PATH.

Test with pm2 -v from command line to ensure PATH addition is correct.