How To Install NPM and Node.js in Jenkins

This article will be a continuation of my previous article (Configuring and Running Jenkins on a Remote Server with Docker).

If you haven't read it, here is the link:
https://dev.to/tomislavkraljic/configuring-and-running-jenkins-on-a-remote-server-with-docker-1cdl

In that tutorial, I went over how to create a remote server on Digital Ocean, configuring, and run Jenkins in a Docker Container on that server.

In this article, I will be teaching you how to install npm and Node.js inside a Jenkins Container. Let's get started!

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Step 1: Make sure you remote server is up and running.

Step 2: SSH into your remote server via the command line.

 ssh root@<ipv4_address>

Step 3: Grab the container id of Jenkins:

docker ps

Step 4: Enter inside the container that is running Jenkins as root user

docker exec -u 0 -it <container_id> bash

Step 5: Check Linux Distribution running in your Container

cat /etc/issue

Step 6: Update APT

apt-update

Step 7: If not already, install Curl

apt install curl

Step 8: Run curl command to get scripts to install Node.js and NPM

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x -o nodesource_setup.sh

Step 9: Execute script

bash nodesource_setup.sh

Step 10: Install Node.js and NPM

apt install nodejs

Congratulations! You successfully installed NPM and Node.js for Jenkins!