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Koçulu published left-pad on npm, the default package manager for Node.js, a JavaScript runtime environment. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Despite its relative obscurity, left-pad was heavily used; the package was used as a dependency by thousands of other software projects and reached over 15 million downloads prior to its removal.
All npm packages are JavaScript libraries, but not all libraries are packages. Npm serves as a package manager for packages used in Node.js runtimes. [18] [19] However, some npm packages offer CDN support for use of the library in both Node.js runtimes as well as the browser. [20]
In January 2010, a package manager was introduced for the Node.js environment called npm. [18] The package manager allows programmers to publish and share Node.js packages, along with the accompanying source code, and is designed to simplify the installation, update and uninstallation of packages. [17]
An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created as a collaboration of Facebook (now Meta), Exponent (now Expo.dev), Google, and Tilde (the company behind Ember.js) to solve consistency, security, and performance problems with large codebases.
React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library [5] [6] that aims to make building user interfaces based on components more "seamless". [5] It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies.
Task-runners like gulp and Grunt are built on Node.js rather than npm because the basic npm scripts are inefficient when executing multiple tasks. Even though some developers prefer npm scripts because they can be simple and easy to implement, there are numerous ways where gulp and Grunt seem to have an advantage over each other, and the default provided scripts. [11]
Vite (French:, like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You, [2] the creator of Vue.js, and used by default by Vue and for React project templates. It has support for TypeScript and JSX. It uses Rollup and esbuild internally for bundling. [3]
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