• a_Ha
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    3 years ago

    From your article :
    In November 2020, Marak had warned that he will no longer be supporting the big corporations with his “free work” and that commercial entities should consider either forking the projects or compensating the dev with a yearly “six figure” salary.” …😆 ! !

    My small search :
    We’re npm, Inc., the company behind Node Package Manager, the npm Registry, and npm CLI. We offer those to the community for free, but our day job is building and selling useful tools for developers like you. Take your JavaScript development up a notch

    NPM is the repository of all kind packages that you can think of. At this moment, there are 28698 packages in NPM which is a lot for a 4 years old project.
    Hi.[@Ephera](https://lemmy.ml/u/Ephera)i.was.updating.at.the.same.time.you.repled

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      There is a popular framework for using JavaScript to write backend applications, which is called Node.js.
      And then for that framework, they created a package manager, the Node Package Manager – NPM.

      Nowadays, NPM is used even for frontend code and independent of Node.js, because there is no real other package manager for JavaScript.

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        There is a popular framework for using JavaScript to write backend applications, which is called Node.js.

        A small nitpick but Node.js is technically a JS runtime (built with V7 engine), not a framework. Express.js is the actual framework that runs on Node.js.