Microsoft buys JavaScript developer platform npm for undisclosed amount
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Microsoft to acquire npm for an undisclosed amount. (NPM), a major JavaScript-developer platform, which has planned to integrate with Microsoft owned ,GitHub.
The npm repository hosts over 1.3 million JavaScript libraries, containing over 75 billion downloads a month by almost 12 million developers. Both the companies announced that this deal will help the open-source JavaScript community immensely. Microsoft plans to integrate npm into GitHub with an aim to invest and develop the platform to make it a fast, reliable and scalable, whilst still keeping it free.
Microsoft intends to always keep the npm registry available as open-source and free to developers, said GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
Once Microsoft's acquisition of npm is approved, it has a three-pronged plan for npm, Friedman said in his post: To invest in the registry infrastructure and platform; to improve the core experience of npm with new features like Workspaces, as well as improvements to publishing and multi-factor authentication; and to engage with the JavaScript community to "help us define the future of npm."
In the longer term, Microsoft intends to integrate GitHub and npm so that developers will be able to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to an npm package version that fixes it, Friedman said.
Microsoft also plans to continue to support paid npm features for Pro, Teams and Enterprise customers for hosting private registries. Microsoft also plans to enable npm's paying customers to move their private npm packages to GitHub Packages, "allowing npm to exclusively focus on being a great public registry for JavaScript," Friedman said.
"Today's news that GitHub will be acquiring npm is a positive and logical step to ensure the stability and security of the open-source npm registry for JavaScript developers. We know and trust the GitHub leaders who have the experience to build upon the important contributions by many, which made npm the leading open-source package management resource it is today," said Robin Ginn, executive director, OpenJS Foundation.
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