How do you use NPM with repository managers?

[Daniel Sauble]

Hi there. I’m a UX designer with Sonatype. We’re currently adding NPM support to the newest version of our repository manager, Nexus 3. We’d like to understand how people use NPM in the wild, to ensure that we’re adding the right features. If you currently use a repository manager with NPM, or want to, I’d love to hear your take on the following questions.

• Do you use NPM with a repository manager? If so…
• Which repository manager do you use?
• How do you use it today?
• Do you use it in production?
• What process do you use to migrate NPM modules between repositories?
• If you don’t use a repository manager, why not? Is the solution overkill? Not valuable enough?
  
• Which features of NPM do you use? (e.g. publish, deprecate, adduser, login, …)
• Any other questions/feedback for us?

If you’d like to discuss any of this over the phone, I’d be happy to do that too. Thanks!

- Daniel