• Ephera
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    12 years ago

    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.

    • @el_programmadorOP
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      2 years ago

      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.