Github announced the Github packages feature a while back, but without npm it didn't quite make sense. Acquiring npm means github not only hosts source code, bu

Github announced the Github packages feature a while back, but without npm it didn't quite make sense. Acquiring npm means github not only hosts source code, but packages as well. With Github Actions, they want to be the one stop shop for code lifecycle and be at the forefront of javascript ecosystem. If developers love Github, they love the cloud. Microsoft is betting big on the cloud, they lost the Mobile war but they definitely want to be the developer and cloud darlings.