Node.js Node 4 (no 1, 2, 3 versions were previously released) 2.0.8. 2016 The leftpad incident Yarn is born Node 6 2.0.9. 2017 npm focuses more on security Node 8 - 9 HTTP/2 V8 introduces Node has since become a tool used also in frontend JavaScript. There are many things that npm does. Yarn and pnpm are alternatives to npm cli. You can check them out as well. 15.2. Downloads npm manages unrelated. It's a central repository of configuration for tools, for example. It's also where npm and yarn store the names and versions for all the installed packages. 18.1. The file structure Here's an