The NPM authors explicitly draw the line between development and production. Their official stance is that NPM should be a development tool; in production modul

The NPM authors explicitly draw the line between development and production. Their official stance is that NPM should be a development tool; in production modules should be installed through the native OS package manager. http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/04/development-environment/ http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/04/development-environment/ (bottom) http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/06/npm-1-0-link/ http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/06/npm-1-0-link/ ("Caveat: Not For Real Servers")