npm, Inc., is a company founded in 2014. It was acquired by
GitHub, a
subsidiary of
Microsoft, in 2020. The company maintains the
npmpackage manager for
Node.js and the npm Registry, which hosts software packages and version control based on
Git.[2]
History
Bryan Bogensberger joined the company as CEO in July 2018 and resigned in September 2019.[3] Before Bogensberger's resignation, npm co-founder Laurie Voss resigned in July 2019.[4]
Microsoft-owned
GitHub announced in March 2020 it would acquire npm, Inc.[5][6]