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npm inventor, founder npm, Inc. Former Node BDFL. All opinions are my own. Literally all of them. I own them all.

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isaacs · Oakland CA · 16,356 followers · 39,379 stars · 488 repositories · joined November 2022

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In 2009, I invented npm and spent 12 years working on it, including founding npm, Inc. (acquired by GitHub in 2020), and designing and implementing Arborist, the library that powers npm 7 and higher. I also continue to maintain node-tar, the best tar implementation in JavaScript, on which npm and most other JS package managers depend.
If you use JavaScript in any capacity, there is a very good chance you depend on code I wrote!
I left GitHub in November 2021 to found another startup, and no longer work on npm full time. Now, I'm at Sentry, working on their JS SDK.
Apart from that, I maintain node-tap and a whole host of Node.js utility libraries that are used by millions of JavaScripters around the world. Sponsorship helps me justify my non-work OSS time, since that takes me away from other activities, and sponsoring libraries of mine will help me judge where my OSS maintenance time is best spent.

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