Microsoft owned GitHub has announced it is buying popular JavaScript repository npm for an undisclosed amount. The npm repository hosts over 1.3 million JavaScript libraries, containing over 75 ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, ...

GitHub's acquisition this week of NPM Inc., a prominent player in the JavaScript ecosystem, has sparked both worry and welcome from users of the ubiquitous programming language. The company hosts Node ...

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 ...

GitHub has sliced and diced the data from its annual Octoverse report on open source activity in a variety of ways, and any way you cut it, one overwhelming theme emerges: JavaScript rules. GitHub ...

Microsoft is to acquire Node Package Manager (npm) and integrate the technology with GitHub. The software giant believes integrating npm with GitHub will make the combined community even more ...