The latest news, GitHub official Jeremy Epling issued an announcement that GitHub has completed the acquisition of npm.
From the announcement of the acquisition to the completion of the acquisition, exactly one month has passed. On March 17, Nat Friedman (GitHub CEO) announced that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm .
The transaction is currently completed, and the announcement mentions that npm's public registry service will always be available and free of charge. In addition, the npm official blog also mentioned that it will continue to improve the npm CLI.
After npm officially joined GitHub, the next three development focuses are:
- Maintain active interaction with the JavaScript community
- Provide better infrastructure and platform for registry services to ensure npm is faster, more reliable and has more scalability
- Improve the core experience
For this acquisition, npm stated in the official blog "This is an exciting upgrade", and they hope to bring more improvements to npm and more improvements for JS developers. Everyone in the dependent JavaScript ecosystem provides a more reliable and convenient connection. "