"yapm" is a package manager for node.js (npm fork)

Changes

• improvements in package.json handling:

  • preserve formatting of package.json files
  • support for package.json5 and package.yaml files (docs, #3336, #4482).
  • if package.json or any other json document is malformed, show where the error is (#3869).

• formatting changes:

  • logs have much more clean formatting
  • added a progress bar showing download progress (#1257)
  • better search output with github repository links

• multiple registries support

  • registry-specific configs + security fixes
  • easier switch between different npm registries

• semver support for packages installable from github (docs, #3014, #3328, #3442, #3511, #4527).

• a bunch of other minor changes (docs, #4573).

Installation

# install it as a global module (maybe with sudo)
$ npm install -g yapm

# run it just as you'd run npm itself
$ yapm install whatever

# if you want to write 'npm' and hate the name change,
# you might want to use an alias (i.e. write into ~/.bashrc)
$ alias npm=yapm

Upstreams

Pulled from visionmedia/npm

• Github semver support
• Output formatting changes
• Better search output

Pulled from npm/npm

• Everything else, this repository is synced with upstream at least once a week