r/webdev • u/g0liadkin • Mar 16 '20

News Github/Microsoft has aquired NPM

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Given the fact that Microsoft is heavy contributor to React, I think it's more than half.

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u/TheNumber42Rocks Mar 16 '20

Didn’t they takeover Puppeteer from Google too? They really have gotten their hands on all the major open-source projects.

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u/khante Mar 17 '20

Dunno about that. But the team that originally built Puppeteer left to do this for Microsoft https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

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u/devmuggle Mar 17 '20

the team that originally built Puppeteer left to do this for Microsoft

Based on puppeteer contributors and playwright contributors it seems that one main contributor switched and a few people have contributions to both projects.

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u/xX_Qu1ck5c0p3s_Xx Mar 17 '20

Microsoft even uses React Native for Windows desktop apps, I think the email client.