npm Ecosystem

npm

• how many npm users are there?, Module Counts
• Why not to use version control hosting for packages
• npm and front-end packaging
• changes to npm’s unpublish policy, kik, left-pad, and npm
• Hello, Yarn!

Finding Packages

• Search
  • npms.io / node-modules.com / npmsearch.com
    • improved search in the npm CLI (and how we got here), \ Better search is here!
  • Github Search (sort by stars, for JS)
• Stats
  • npm trends
  • NPMCompare
  • npm-stat
• Rank
  • The State Of JavaScript, \ Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey
  • npm's most depended-upon packages

Dependency Management / Release / Maintenance

• npm Developer Guide
  • npm's CLI
  • v5.0.0
  • npm’s lockfiles
• Yarn
  • yarn's CLI
  • yarn.lock
• Lerna
• semantic-release / np, gh-release
• npm-check-updates
• check-dependencies
• changed-log
• license-checker

Convention

• Open Source
  • README
    • Art of README, How To Write A Readme
    • Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project
    • Readme Driven Development
    • Template - Common Readme / Standard Readme / Zalando's README Template
  • Changelog
    • Conventional Commits
    • Conventional Changelog
    • How to Write a Git Commit Message
  • License
    • Choose an open source license
• SemVer
  • SemVer (Semantic Versioning) / The semantic versioner for npm / Semver: A Primer
  • npm semver calculator
• package.json
  • Specifics of npm's package.json
  • Specifics of yarn's package.json
  • What's the difference between dependencies, devDependencies and peerDependencies
• Small Modules
  • Unix Philosophy and Node.js
  • module best practices
  • how I write modules
  • Hyper Modular / One-line Modules
    • Small focused modules
    • Hyper Modular Packages: A Crazy Cult or a Reasonable Practice?
    • In Defense of Hyper Modular JavaScript
• Isomorphic JS / Universal JS
  • Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps
  • Universal JavaScript