npm weekly #159: Catch our Cloud Next ’18 keynote, we’re hiring again, and five things you might not know about npm

Catch up on npm at Cloud Next ‘18

Last month, CTO C J Silverio had the opportunity to keynote at the Google Cloud Next ’18 event.

If you weren’t able to catch the livestream on the day of (because, you know, work, life, etc.), the video of her presentation is now available. Watch it now!

npm.community Corner

If you’re looking for a way to contribute to npm for the first time, our official forum npm.community is a great place to start. Did you know there’s a tag for good first patches? Because there is.

Head to npm.community, sign up, and start searching for a way to create your first npm pr. We’ll see you there!

See your project featured here

How do you use npm? If you or your team is building something cool with npm, we want to help promote it far and wide. Let’s partner up to show off what you’ve built. Let’s chat!

What we’re reading: General Magic — how tech superfriends assembled, dreamt up smartphones, and then failed

If you haven’t heard, a new documentary about a company you might not have ever heard of has a lot of people talking. General Magic was slated to be the first company to create a personal smart device. Read this interesting recap of their very compelling story.

Get the latest: npm@6.4.0

Last week, the npm CLI team shared the pre-release details of npm@6.4.0-next.0. Version 6.4.0 is now the latest and includes some new features like the ability to configure your _authToken through environment variables and control at what severity npm audit exits with an error. This release also includes bug fixes, documentation improvements, and some dependency updates.

Discover this release’s full details by reading the changelog at npm.community.

We’re seeking a Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Last week, we announced that we’re searching for someone to fill a senior service reliability engineer role. Normally we’d share something encouraging you to check out the position, but C J Silverio and Chris Dickinson already did such a fantastic job that you should read what they wrote then apply here.

The deadline to apply is August 31, 2018.

What we’re watching: #FiveThings About npm

Have five minutes? Of course you do! Watch this quick episode of Five Things, where hosts Burke Holland and Elijah Manor run through five things you probably didn’t know npm could do.

Mark your calendars to make the move to `npm audit` before 9/30

The Node Security Platform will be shutting down on September 30, 2018. Not to worry, npm now automatically reviews every install request against the NSP vulnerability database and warns you if you try to use unsafe code. Upgrade to the latest version of npm to take advantage of these powerful features.

Start sharing private packages within your organization by upgrading your npm Org account. Learn how to upgrade or get details on working with private packages.

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