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In January 2010, a package manager was introduced for the Node.js environment called npm. [18] The package manager allows programmers to publish and share Node.js packages, along with the accompanying source code, and is designed to simplify the installation, update and uninstallation of packages. [17]
An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created as a collaboration of Facebook (now Meta), Exponent (now Expo.dev), Google, and Tilde (the company behind Ember.js) to solve consistency, security, and performance problems with large codebases.
All npm packages are JavaScript libraries, but not all libraries are packages. Npm serves as a package manager for packages used in Node.js runtimes. [12] [13] However, some npm packages offer CDN support for use of the library in both Node.js runtimes as well as the browser. [14]
In Aptoide there is not a unique and centralized store; instead, each user manages their own store. F-Droid: Alternative app store for Android, whose official repository contains only free software; Samsung Galaxy Store: An app store developed by Samsung for Android, Tizen, Windows Mobile and Bada devices.
V8 is a JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for its Chrome browser. [1] [4] V8 is free and open-source software that is part of the Chromium project and also used separately in non-browser contexts, notably the Node.js runtime system. [1]
Keeping these extensions installed is a serious risk since hackers can still access your data even if the malicious version has been taken down from the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, [2] and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. [3] A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4]
Most other package managers (such as Chocolatey) install applications in one central location, where they are usable by all the users on the system. Some bloggers recommend to install both Chocolatey and Scoop. [17] [16] Both have strong community support. [18] Scoop lets developers quickly set up a repeatable development environment.