Questions about GitHub Package Registry

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, node.js
Domain
documentation

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No repository file or test is identified. Start by reading the linked GitHub Package Registry article and the npm package link, then address the five numbered questions about interoperability, package availability, use cases, advantages, and drawbacks; done means documenting those answers.

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First, thanks to the team at GitHub for allowing me to be an early tester of this product. I'm a regular user of NPM, I publish my own packages, I use it to manage my Node code base. So I'm interested in innovations in this area.

Here are some very basic questions.

  1. Is it either/or? If I use GitHub Package Registry, can I still access packages in NPM?
  2. If I can't, are common NPM packages also available in GHPR? For example, I use nodejs-websocket in some of my projects.
  3. What are some use-cases for GHPR?
  4. What advantages does it have over NPM?
  5. Drawbacks?

These are all questions I will try to answer as I do my investigation, but it would be helpful to get the answers from others first. Might save me some time.

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