Is the public NPM JavaScript package registry going away? NPM, the company behind the popular online repository of Node.js and JavaScript code, insists it will remain, despite a recent rumor to the contrary.
The company wants to dispel any notion that the public registry will be eliminated or that its elimination was ever under consideration. NPM is, in fact, continuing the public registry while also making recent improvements to its behind-the-firewall, commercially licensed, private registry for enterprises.
Rumor of a planned termination of the freely available public registry, leaving only the paid enterprise service, was reported by The Register. But Ahmad Nassri, NPM CTO, has sought to dispel this suggestion. “We clearly want to dismiss [this notion],” Nassri said. Such a move was not a conversation that ever happened or will ever happen, he stressed.