Awesome npm

Awesome npm resources and tips

npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language and comes bundled in the Node.js runtime.

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Contents

• Articles
• Tools
• Packages
• Clients
• Tips
• FAQ
• Community
• Documentation
• Support
• Related

Articles

• Small focused modules
• Unix philosophy and Node.js - Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
• Writing small modules
• Semver: A Primer (Must read!)
• Semver: Tilde and Caret
• Offline installation of npm packages
• Task automation with npm run
• How to use npm as a build tool
• Install npm packages globally without sudo on macOS and Linux
• Optimizing the footprint of an npm package
• The Art of Node - An introduction to Node.js and client-side development with npm.
• Why npm scripts? - An introduction to npm scripts with common packages and scripts, as well as a boilerplate project.

Tools

Web

• npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.
• NodeICO - Package badges.
• Libraries.io - Package discovery.
• npm-stat - Statistics charts for packages.
• npmgraph - Visualization of dependencies.
• npm trends - Compare package download counts over time.
• npm-top - npm users by downloads.
• npm semver calculator - Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.
• ghub.io - Redirects to the GitHub repo of an npm package.
• moiva - Discover and compare packages.

Browser extensions

• Octo-Linker - Chrome extension to navigate across npm packages on GitHub with ease.
• npm-hub - Chrome extension to explore npm dependencies on GitHub repos.
• github-npm-stats - View npm download stats on GitHub.
• npm-search-update - Chrome extension to quickly search for dependencies and monitor changes from the npm registry.

CLI

• zsh-better-npm-completion - Better ZSH completion for npm.
• npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Packages

Publishing

• np - A better npm publish.
• publish-please - Publish packages safely and gracefully.
• npm-release - Making releasing to npm so easy a kitten could probably do it™.
• pkgfiles - List all files which would be published in a package.
• release-it - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
• semantic-release - Fully automated package publishing.

Registry

• npm-name - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
• package-json - Get the package.json of a package from the npm registry.
• latest-version - Get the latest version of an npm package.