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Why is Microsoft buying NPM (Node Package Manager)?
Node Package Manager, more widely known as NPM, is almost the default package manager of NodeJS platform, though other famous package manager Yarn also exists.
Microsoft recently surprised the developer community by acquiring GitHub, which is the largest source control management tool hosted on the internet.
Now, another surprise news came out today — Microsoft GitHub is acquiring NPM!
Okay, so we have this Coronavirus pandemic sweeping everywhere around the world. Amidst all of these terrible sufferings, GitHub buying NPM seems to be such a small news that only matters to developers. Besides, NPM is only for NodeJS, which is a popular front-end server but not the de-facto programming tech stack. So, why does it matter and why is Microsoft doing this?
I will breakdown the reasons why Microsoft GitHub doing this.
