npm weekly #243: It’s official! 🎉

npm, Inc.
npm, Inc.
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2 min readApr 16, 2020

It’s official!

npm is now officially part of GitHub!

The public npm registry will always be available and free for the millions of developers who use it. Now that npm is officially part of GitHub, we’re beginning work on our three immediate areas of focus. Read more…

Let us know your thoughts!

In our efforts to best support the community, we are always striving to improve our Open RFC calls. We’d love to hear your thoughts on how we’re doing! Please fill out our short survey here. Thank you!

✨Special thanks✨

We’d like to give a special shoutout to security researcher Michele Romano for responsibly disclosing an Open Redirect vulnerability in our website. They contacted the npm security team, who then ensured that the issue was properly fixed. Thank you, Michele, for helping us make the JavaScript ecosystem more secure! 🙌

Mark your calendar

Save the date for next week’s Open RFC deep-dive call: Wednesday, April 22 at 11am PT/2pm ET! Meeting details will be available here shortly.

Did you miss yesterday’s Open RFC discussion? No worries — you can review the notes and recording here.

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A note from our CTO

npm’s CTO, Ahmad Nassri, wrote up a blog post about their journey and some of the team’s accomplishments leading up to the acquisition. Read more…

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npm, Inc.
npm, Inc.

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