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Microsoft buys JavaScript developer platform npm; plans to integrate it with GitHub
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Quote: Microsoft is acquiring npm, a major JavaScript-developer platform, which it is planning to integrate with GitHub

Microsoft is acquiring Node package manager npm Inc., officials announced on March 16. (Neither company is sharing the purchase price.) Microsoft plans to integrate GitHub with npm with the intent of making the combined community even more appealing to JavaScript developers. 

npm, in addition to offering the Node package manager, also hosts and maintains the npm Registry and CLI

Microsoft officials said npm currently supports more than 1.3 million packages and 75 billion downloads a month. Microsoft intends to always keep the npm registry available as open-source and free to developers, said GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. 

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