GitHub, part of Microsoft, is investing heavily in the open source software community. Recently, the startup and open source registry for JavaScript software packages npm was taken over.

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GitHub has announced plans to acquire npm. Npm is the company behind the Node package manager for the programming language JavaScript, the npm Registry and npm CLI.

Our JavaScript actions are going to leverage the GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions. This is an external library that we will install using npm which means that you will need Node.js ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science ...

The Microsoft-owned Github has announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github's chief executive officer, who made the announcement ...

As every quarter, GitHub visualizes the activities of its members in the Innovation Graph. In Q1 2025, there were changes in ...

GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. npm is a key part of the JavaScript ecosystem, home to more than 1.3 ...

Microsoft is acquiring npm, a major JavaScript-developer platform, which it is planning to integrate with GitHub. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor March 16, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. PT ...