npmx.dev: New website for npm package search
The open-source project npmx is used for fast searching of npm packages. It focuses on UX, displays vulnerability warnings, and offers a dark mode.
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On the new website npmx.dev, developers can search for npm packages and view their source code. The site is similar to npmjs.com, but is not intended to be a replacement. The open-source project npmx aims for speed and a modern user interface. Created in January of this year, npmx is still in alpha status.
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Package search with keyboard navigation, dark mode, and security warnings
As the npmx team emphasizes, npmx is neither a package manager nor a package registry. Rather, it is intended to offer an improved user experience when dealing with the npm Package Registry. The exact differences compared to npmjs.com are listed in the GitHub repo. Thanks to URL compatibility, developers can replace npmjs.com URLs with xnpmjs.com or npmx.dev.
npmx presents itself with a modern interface that offers a dark mode, keyboard navigation, and source code view with syntax highlighting. It also connects to alternative registries like JSR.
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Based on the OSV database, npmx displays warnings about vulnerabilities in npm packages. Furthermore, npmx displays package details such as READMEs, dependencies, and metadata, as well as weekly download statistics, deprecation notices, and the full installation size, including transitive dependencies.
User profiles with their public packages can be displayed via /~username, and company pages via /@orgname.
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Foundation laid just six weeks ago
The idea for npmx originated from Daniel Roe, the head of the Nuxt core team. He made the first commit on January 22, 2026, and on Bluesky, a lively discussion arose the next day in response to his question about what aspects of npmjs.com are frustrating. Within the first 16 days, the new project achieved 1500 GitHub stars. 105 people contributed to its development.
Meanwhile, the open-source project has gained Vercel, VoidZero, vlt, Netlify, and Bluesky as sponsors. Numerous projects are on board as OSS partners, including Vue.js, Nuxt, Storybook, Vite, and JSR.
Further information can be found in the npmx.dev blog and the npmx repository on GitHub.
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