GitHub nabs JavaScript packaging vendor npm

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount.
As GitHubCEO Nat Friedman wrote in a blog post announcing the deal, npmis a big deal in the JavaScript community. The company is the commercial entity behind the Node package manager, the npm Registry and npm CLI.
“npm is a critical part of the JavaScript world. The work of the npm team over the last 10 years, and the cont