npm weekly #228: npm tips, beyond npm install, and CLI tools for all the things!

The votes are in

The npm team held a RFC session at last week’s OpenJS Collaboration Summit in Montreal. It was a great opportunity for the team to connect with the community in person. We discussed the needs and pain points developers are facing today, and how npm can help. You can check out the results from the session’s retrospective here, which show what attendees would like to see npm focus on in the months ahead.

Stay tuned for our next Open RFC call in the new year!

Beyond npm install

Last weekat Node+JS Interactive in Montreal, npm’s Darcy Clarke shared insights into what the Open Source team has been up to, and what lies ahead. You can check out their slides here. Watch this space for videos from the conference talks!

The challenges, best practices and solutions for in-house JavaScript code sharing

npm’s head of product, Daniel Sauble, and Phone2Action’s Front-end Developer, Daniel Thompson, met to discuss how Phone2Action uses private packages in the npm registry to implement open-source style code-sharing best practices across their organization, as well as recent updates to the npm product lineup. You can watch the recording here, as well as check out the recordings of all of our past webinars and tech talks. Enjoy!

CLI Tools for All the Things!

Did you miss Ruy Adorno’s Node+JS Interactive presentation, “CLI Tools for all the Things,” or want a refresher? Never fear! You can access their slides here. Enjoy!

Please note

We’ll be taking a break on the newsletter front for the next two weeks, as we wind down the year and prepare for an amazing year ahead. Stay tuned for our next newsletter and our Open RFC calls to kickstart in the new year!

Have you checked out the new docs site yet?

Check out https://preview-docs.npmjs.com to get a sneak peak!

Recommended project: Botonic

The team at Botonic is using npm Teams to create some amazing stuff. Check out their open-source framework that allows developers to build conversational applications using React.

Apps built with Botonic work on messaging channels like WhatsApp (using the official Whatsapp Business API), Facebook Messenger, Telegram, etc, and can be embedded in any website or mobile app. Using the Botonic CLI, developers can scaffold new apps from templates, run and test locally, and deploy to the cloud with a single command.

Learn more about npm Teams and how it can help your organization build amazing things.

3 Steps Developers Should Take To Use npm Securely

This quick-read blog post by Patricia Johnson details the steps you can take to gain more visibility into the security of, and control over, your open source projects.

Need private packages and/or team management tools?

Check out npm Pro and npm Teams. Both tools empower developers to utilize private packages and collaborate, either working with contributors on Open Source projects (Pro), or working as a team on mission-critical applications (Teams).

Build amazing things, together!

npm Pack & npm Packlist: Create a tarball from a package + Get a list of the files to add from a folder into an npm package

Learn more about npm Pack here and npm Packlist here!