About npm
npm, Inc. is a company founded in 2014, and was acquired by GitHub in 2020. npm is a critical part of the JavaScript community and helps support one of the largest developer ecosystems in the world.
npm is lots of things.
npm is the package manager forNode.js. It was created in 2009 as anopen source project to help JavaScript developers easily share packaged modules of code.
The npm Registry is a public collection of packages of open-source code for Node.js, front-end web apps, mobile apps, robots, routers, and countless other needs of the JavaScript community.
npm is the command line client that allows developers to install and publish those packages.