Other

• package-up (⭐165) - Find the closest package.json file.

• read-package-up (⭐267) - Read the closest package.json file.

• package-config (⭐120) - Get namespaced config from the closest package.json.

Web

• moiva - Discover and compare packages.

Articles

• Install npm packages globally without sudo on macOS and Linux (⭐2.5k)

Command aliases

• npm un → npm uninstall

• npm up → npm update

Browser extensions

• npm-search-update - Chrome extension to quickly search for dependencies and monitor changes from the npm registry.

Related / pre and post scripts

• awesome-nodejs (⭐64k)

Other

• lockfile-lint (⭐829) - Lint lockfiles for improved security and trust policies to mitigate malicious package injection and insecure lockfile resources.

CLI

• npkill (⭐9k) - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Other

• luna (⭐1k) - App to manage npm dependencies.

• emma-cli (⭐1.2k) - Interactive CLI package search utility.

Publishing

• release-it (⭐8.7k) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.

Registry

• cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS with support for public and private npm registries (and many others).

Web

• ghub.io - Redirects to the GitHub repo of an npm package.

Community / pre and post scripts

• Stack Overflow

• Blog

Clients

• npm (⭐9.3k) - The official client.

Articles

• Writing small modules

• Task automation with npm run

• How to use npm as a build tool

Support / pre and post scripts

• npm.community

Web

• npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.

Standalone version of a package / pre and post scripts

• https://wzrd.in/standalone/object-assign

• https://wzrd.in/standalone/object-assign@4.0.0

Other

• npm-run-all (⭐5.8k) - CLI tool to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or serial.

• onchange (⭐828) - Watch files and folders and run a command when something changed.

• cli-error-notifier (⭐72) - Sends native desktop notifications when npm scripts fail.

Clients

• pnpm (⭐33k) - Fast, disk space efficient package manager.

Other

• synp (⭐783) - Convert yarn.lock to package-lock.json and vice versa.

Browser extensions

• github-npm-stats - View npm download stats on GitHub.

Registry

• verdaccio (⭐17k) - Lightweight private npm proxy registry.

Other

• package-size (⭐427) - Get the bundle size of an npm package.

Other

• redrun (⭐126) - Expand scripts from package.json to improve execution speed.

Clients

• yarn (⭐42k) - Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.

Other

• shrinkpack (⭐802) - Lock down your dependencies and install offline.

Registry

• npm-register (⭐485) - Easy to set up and maintain npm registry and proxy.

CLI

• zsh-better-npm-completion (⭐491) - Better ZSH completion for npm.

Other

• decheck (⭐9) - Explore dependencies of npm packages in the command-line.

Articles

• Why npm scripts? - An introduction to npm scripts with common packages and scripts, as well as a boilerplate project.

Other

• npm-upgrade (⭐337) - Update outdated npm dependencies interactively.

Registry

• nrm (⭐3k) - Registry manager.

Other

• ntl (⭐951) - Interactive CLI menu to list & run npm tasks.

Registry

• npm-cli-login (⭐119) - Log in to npm.

Command aliases

• npm i -D → npm install --save-dev

Other

• john (⭐42) - Make npm3's flat dependencies easier to find and sort.

Articles

• Unix philosophy and Node.js - Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

• Optimizing the footprint of an npm package

• The Art of Node (⭐9.9k) - An introduction to Node.js and client-side development with npm.

Registry

• latest-version (⭐52) - Get the latest version of an npm package.

• npm-user (⭐57) - Get user info of an npm user.

• npm-email (⭐32) - Get the email of an npm user.

• npm-user-packages (⭐5) - Get packages by an npm user.

• npm-stats (⭐51) - Get data from an npm registry.

Other

• generator-nm (⭐739) - Scaffold out an npm package.

• enpeem-search (⭐4) - Search packages by scraping the npm web search.

• npm-issues (⭐48) - Search known issues of all your packages at once.

Articles

• Small focused modules (⭐145)

• Semver: A Primer (Must read!)

• Semver: Tilde and Caret

• Offline installation of npm packages

Web

• NodeICO - Package badges.

• Libraries.io - Package discovery.

• npm-stat - Statistics charts for packages.

• npmgraph - Visualization of dependencies.

• npm trends - Compare package download counts over time.

• npm-top - npm users by downloads.

• npm semver calculator - Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.

Browser extensions

• Octo-Linker - Chrome extension to navigate across npm packages on GitHub with ease.

• npm-hub - Chrome extension to explore npm dependencies on GitHub repos.

Publishing

• np (⭐7.7k) - A better npm publish.

• publish-please (⭐738) - Publish packages safely and gracefully.

• npm-release (⭐103) - Making releasing to npm so easy a kitten could probably do it™.

• pkgfiles (⭐85) - List all files which would be published in a package.

• semantic-release (⭐23k) - Fully automated package publishing.

Registry

• npm-name (⭐287) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.

• package-json (⭐245) - Get the package.json of a package from the npm registry.

• npm-keyword (⭐52) - Get a list of npm packages with a certain keyword.

• dpn (⭐27) - Get the dependents of a user's npm packages.

Other

• npm-home (⭐199) - Open the npm page of a package.

• gh-home (⭐191) - Open the GitHub page of a package.

• david (⭐967) - Check if your package dependencies are out of date.

• npm-check (⭐6.6k) - Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies, as well as interactive update.

• npm-shrinkwrap (⭐771) - A consistent shrinkwrap tool.

• npm-windows-upgrade (⭐2.5k) - Upgrade npm on Windows.

• normalize-package-data (⭐203) - Normalize package metadata.

• npm-run-path (⭐105) - Run locally installed binaries in the terminal by name like with global ones.

• local-npm (⭐1.2k) - Use npm offline.

• npe (⭐92) - CLI for inspecting and editing properties in package.json.

• engine-deps (⭐20) - Manage Node.js version specific dependencies with ease.

Command aliases

• npm i → npm install

• npm t → npm test

• npm it → npm install && npm test

• npm r → npm uninstall

FAQ / pre and post scripts

• Check in node_modules vs. shrinkwrap

• What is the difference between Bower and npm?

• What does ^ mean in package.json versioning?

• Find the version of an installed npm package

• What's the difference between dependencies, devDependencies, and peerDependencies in package.json?

Community / pre and post scripts

• #npm on Freenode

• Reddit

• Twitter

Documentation / pre and post scripts

• Official

• Troubleshooting (⭐18k)

• Semantic versioning

• Fixing npm permissions

• package.json

• npm run script

• Stats API (⭐331)

Support / pre and post scripts

• Twitter

• Contact form