GitHub has announced plans to acquire npm. Npm is the company behind the Node package manager for the programming language JavaScript, the npm Registry and npm CLI. “npm is a critical part of the ...

TypeScript, Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has become the most-used language on GitHub, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report released on October 28. August 2025 marked the first ...

Attackers are constantly finding ways to take over accounts and push malicious packages to the npm registry, the (GitHub-operated) online repository for JavaScript and Node.js packages. But in this ...

Developers reportedly see a 50 percent productivity boost when documentation is detailed and available in different formats, but previously if you wanted to include pictures and/or diagrams in ...

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 ...

Source code repository hoster GitHub has listed the most popular programming languages used on its site, tracking usage trends since it launched in 2008. It revealed few surprises, mostly matching up ...