> NPM is a small company with about 50 employees Doesn't this seem like a lot of...

onion2k · on June 27, 2019

Doesn't this seem like a lot of people for a tool like NPM?

If all they did was make the NPM cli tool then that would be right, but NPM also has features like managing a private module repository, and paying for that, and they need to sell that feature, so really 50 people for a tech startup selling development tools isn't that many.

testtesttest · on June 22, 2019

The organization is not exactly efficient and has had a lot of drama: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/04/npm_cj_silverio_jav...

It really doesn't matter too much though. As you mentioned, what they do is not that difficult and there are good alternatives (exp yarn).