NPM

NPM is a npm Package Manager development company that is part of Node.js, as well as supporting the npm repository.

History

2020: Microsoft bought NPM

In mid-March 2020, Microsoft announced the acquisition of NPM to strengthen its position in the open source software community.

The financial and other terms of the transaction are not disclosed. Prior to its official announcement, NPM attracted a total of $8 million in investments.

Microsoft announced the acquisition of NPM to strengthen its position in the open source software community

The head GitHub Nat Friedman and the co-founder of NPM Isaac Schlueter tell in blogs that in the near future GitHub and NPM are waited by integration. This is expected to ultimately improve supply chains ON open source security.

According to Schlüter, he will continue to work on NPM, the creator of the project will be provided with additional resources and a calmer environment for work. The founder of NPM noted that as part of the GitHub, the NPM service will receive additional support from one of the largest global companies behind the largest development community.

Microsoft promises to invest in the registry infrastructure and platform, improve the performance, reliability and scalability of the service.

In addition, support for paid npm users at Pro, Teams and Enterprise rates will continue. In 2020, they will have the opportunity to transfer private npm packages to GitHub Packages.

When I saw the beta version of GitHub Packages and the presentation at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco, I remember turning to [Senior Vice President of Products GitHub] Shank Niyogi and clumsily shouting: "Why are you not trying to buy us?," - wrote Schluter in a message dedicated to the sale of NPM.

In the npm repository, the developers posted 1.3 million software packages written in JavaScript. Every month, packages from the vault are downloaded about 75 billion times. The number of users of the repository exceeds 12 million developers (data for March 2020).^[1]

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