npm Blog (Archive)

The npm blog has been discontinued.

Updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog.

npm weekly, #14

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cordova plugins moving to npm

Continuing the trend of frameworks moving their plugins to npm, Apache Cordova announced that it will use npm for its core plugins and is encouraging plugin developers to do the same. If you’re a Cordova dev, read their instructions to find out how.

what’s new in the cli?

npm@next brings us up to version 2.9.0. There were two nanofeatures introduced. When you run npm outdated or npm update local modules will be included, and the prefix before the version in git version tags added by npm version is now configurable.

deploying github pages

Are you maintaining a GitHub pages site? You can make your deployment process a little smoother using npm run scripts. Jessica Lord has a great example in the git-it package.