Npm

This article is about the JavaScript package manager. For other uses, see NPM (disambiguation).

npm
Original author(s)Isaac Z. Schlueter
Developer(s)npm, Inc. (a subsidiary of GitHub,[1] a subsidiary of Microsoft)
Initial release12 January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-12)[2]
Stable release
10.8.2[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 9 July 2024
Repository
Written inJavaScript
PlatformCross-platform
TypePackage manager
LicenseArtistic License 2.0
Websitewww.npmjs.com

npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language maintained by npm, Inc., a subsidiary of GitHub. npm is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js and is included as a recommended feature in the Node.js installer.[4]

It consists of a command line client, also called npm, and an online database of public and paid-for private packages, called the npm registry. The registry is accessed via the client, and the available packages can be browsed and searched via the npm website. The package manager and the registry are managed by npm, Inc.

Although "npm" is commonly understood to be an abbreviation of "Node Package Manager", it is officially a recursive backronym for "npm is not an acronym".[5]

  1. ^ "Microsoft-owned GitHub to acquire JavaScript package manager Npm". GeekWire. 17 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Earliest releases of npm". GitHub. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Release 10.8.2". 9 July 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  4. ^ Dierx, Peter (30 March 2016). "A Beginner's Guide to npm – the Node Package Manager". sitepoint. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  5. ^ "npm". npm. 15 May 2024. Archived from the original on 14 May 2024.