npm Reviews

Name: npm
Brand: GitHub
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is npm?

npm is the package manager for the Node JavaScript platform. It puts modules in place so that node can find them, and manages dependency conflicts intelligently. It is extremely configurable to support a wide variety of use cases. Most commonly, it is used to publish, discover, install, and develop node programs.

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npm is the #7 ranked solution in top Java Frameworks. PeerSpot users give npm an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. npm is most commonly compared to Amazon Corretto: npm vs Amazon Corretto.

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Featured reviews

Puneeth Babu

Senior Technical Consultant at FinXL IT Professional Services

There are a lot of features that are very fast in npm, even though it was developed 10 or 12 years back. It comes with a bundle or library, so your development time will radically reduce to half. If you need to spin up a new server or you need to have a developer at minimum cost, it can be easily achieved within npm. Overall, I give npm a nine out of ten.

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Kumara Swamy

Software Development Engineer in Test at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I would like to see the architectural picture flow enhanced. When the flow is wrong, it will impact all of the details. I would like to see compatible versions, and what new features they will be providing. If it is a useful feature I can merge it. If it is not a usable feature, then I can ignore the newer version.

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Nandini Rao

Senior Engineer at Innominds

NPM can improve the package manager. For the packages we download for our APM studio to trigger our APM driver, it would benefit if we could have the latest version of NuGet Package Manager within the package manager control. For example, Visual Studio would be good. Then it would be easy for us to get the package manager from there instead of Googling it out and matching it with the current version. It would be less time-consuming for us. It would be helpful if we could download the latest NPM packages from the Visual Studio marketplace.

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npm mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of npm in the Java Frameworks category stands at 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product's most valuable feature is dependency installation."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's an open-source setting that's very scalable and easily approachable.I like that you can plug in many features to my product."

Room for Improvement

"The product should be compatible with various programming languages, including both native and upcoming languages."
"The library could be updated."
"Some of the libraries that we try to use in npm have issues with security. Also, because it's an open-source solution, I think there are lots of challenges with security. So, the security layer could be improved."

Pricing

"We use the open-source version, so it is free."
"It's an open-source solution, and there are no hidden fees."
"The licensing cost is around one hundred and fifty dollars on a quarterly basis."

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