npm, Inc., is a company founded in 2014. It was acquired by

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, a

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, in 2020. The company maintains the npm package manager for

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and the npm Registry, which hosts software packages and version control based on Git.

History

Bryan Bogensberger joined the company as CEO in July 2018 and resigned in September 2019. Before Bogensberger's resignation, npm co-founder Laurie Voss resigned in July 2019. Microsoft-owned

announced in March 2020 it would acquire npm, Inc.

References

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