Microsoft's GitHub Acquires JavaScript Package Manager npm-Its officail now, npm is joining GitHub.Nat Friedman, Chief Executive Officer of GitHub Inc. announced the acquisition via a blog post today, and npm has an accompanying announcement on its official website.
npm is the world’s most popular JavaScript package manager. Node. js's npm is one of the Largest Package Registry in the World (linux.com).
Nat Friedman, Chief Executive Officer of GitHub Inc. announced the acquisition via a blog post today, and npm has an accompanying announcement on its official website.
As the company npm is a critical part of the JavaScript world.
The work of the npm team over the last 10 years, and the contributions of hundreds of thousands of open source developers and maintainers, have made npm home to over 1.3 million packages with 75 billion downloads a month.
Further, The team together helped JavaScript to become the largest developer ecosystem in the world.
Nat Friedman, in a statement, says that;
We at GitHub are honored to be part of the next chapter of npm’s story and to help npm continue to scale to meet the needs of the fast-growing JavaScript community.
“We will work to improve the everyday experience of developers and maintainers and support the great work already started on the npm v7 CLI, which will remain free and open source. Some bigger features that we’re excited about our Workspaces and improvements to the publishing and multi-factor authentication experience,” said GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.Also In the future, the company plans to integrate GitHub and npm to further improve security and enable developers to closely trace npm packages from within their pull requests. For paying customers of npm Pro, Teams, and Enterprise, GitHub plans to allow those users to move their private npm packages to GitHub Packages. It seems like GitHub plans to eventually kill the paid npm services, and make the service a completely free, public registry for JavaScript.
Moreover, recently Npm has raised at least $8 million in funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners.
Npm is GitHub’s third acquisition in recent quarters. It previously bought Semmle - Code Analysis Platform for Securing Software, Semmle Inc., the maker of a tool for finding security vulnerabilities in code, and earlier picked up Pull Panda Inc. for its development automation software.
For more information read the official blog post.
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