How to install PM2 on Ubuntu 23.04

PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online.

This post tries to capture the steps that we need to install PM2 on our machine running Ubuntu 23.04. The same set of steps can be used to install PM2 globally on any machine already running NodeJS.

Prerequisites:

• Install NodeJs On Ubuntu 23.04
• Install Yarn On Ubuntu 23.04

2 ways to install PM2

PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online. It is offered as a simple and intuitive CLI, installable via NPM.

Using NPM:

npm install --global pm2

or the shorthand as:

npm i -g pm2

Using Yarn:

yarn global add pm2

Support for CLI autocompletion:

pm2 completion install

Updating PM2:

npm install pm2 -g && pm2 update

PM2 itself offers a lot of options to manage your apps in production and can be further seen in official docs.