About npm

npm, Inc. is a company founded in 2014, and was acquired by GitHub in 2020. npm is a critical part of the JavaScript community and helps support one of the largest developer ecosystems in the world.

npm is lots of things.

• npm is the package manager for Node.js. It was created in 2009 as an open source project to help JavaScript developers easily share packaged modules of code.

• The npm Registry is a public collection of packages of open-source code for Node.js, front-end web apps, mobile apps, robots, routers, and countless other needs of the JavaScript community.

• npm is the command line client that allows developers to install and publish those packages.