Microsoft announced that it's reached an agreement to acquire npm. npm has a massive repository of over 1.3 million packages. Now, Microsoft can help grow the JavaScript ecosystem and ...

The Node Package Manager, NPM, has become a powerful and important tool, supporting many different JavaScript frameworks — including JQuery, AngularJS, and React JS. If you’re building ...

The NPM registry of JavaScript packages has become a critical cog in the language’s ecosystem, letting developers discover and use reusable code packages. But for developers worried about ...

The Node Package Manager (npm) team avoided a disaster today when it discovered and blocked the distribution of a cleverly hidden backdoor mechanism inside a popular —albeit deprecated ...

Subsystem No response What steps will reproduce the bug? Install Node.js v23.0.0 & attempt to pack an NPM package. How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition? No required condition.

Only 9.27% of all maintainers of npm JavaScript libraries use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts. The number is incredibly low and a major issue of concern for the npm security ...

Image: npm, Armand Khoury, ZDNet The npm security team has removed today a malicious JavaScript library from the npm website that contained malicious code for opening backdoors on programmers ...

A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot.