npm by default uses HTTPS, and has for more than 3 years. It's a little confusing because the loglines all say "http" in green, but if you actually look at the

npm by default uses HTTPS, and has for more than 3 years. It's a little confusing because the loglines all say "http" in green, but if you actually look at the URLs being downloaded they are all to https://registry.npmjs.org/ https://registry.npmjs.org/