Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one?

Of course, the "packages" being managed are themselves the subject of some discussion:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798

Given how some of them are turning out to be one-liners, or 11-liners, one wag has suggested that Twitter could be an alternative Node.js repository, and has demonstrated how one would go about using Twitter as an alternative repository of such packages, using leftpad as an example:

* https://gist.github.com/rauchg/5b032c2c2166e4e36713

A few days ago there was some discussion about GX, a language-agnostic package manager built around https://ipfs.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347163

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364190 preceded your question by 8 hours. (-:

A wrapper over something like this...

  git clone https://[repo]/[module].git node_modules/[module]

...and ability to provide dependency resolution along with custom runscripts?

Yes, we can. Not a rocket science. How many paranoid freaks will actually switch to it - that is the question.

the guy who did d3 made an alternative. Nix could be one too.

npm install [github_username/repo]