Consuming node packages from the GitHub registry service
Recently I was using GitHub, and I noticed at the top of the page a new button/number combo, used by. So, that was interesting - it's showing how many repositories are using a particular node package. Today, I was scrolling through by Twitter feed and I saw a JavaScript develop posting that he's using the GitHub package registry service for his packages moving forward, and not so much the npm registry service. That GitHub had a registry service was news to be, so I was curious to see how one would use packages stored there rather than on npm. It's worth pointing out, that this service currently seems to be in the beta phase, but here is the page that describes the new offering: https://github.com/features/package-registry . Within GitHub itself, if you navigate to an Organisation or User profile, you will spot a new tab "Packages". A simple search on GitHub reveals there are currently 125 npm packages on the GitHub registry service. So,