Assumes they are only ever going to launch this one product. Also it's $7 for an individual account, they're launching corporate accounts which I would assume

Assumes they are only ever going to launch this one product. Also it's $7 for an individual account, they're launching corporate accounts which I would assume will be priced accordingly. There's enough pain points around the Node.JS infrastructure / tooling that NPM, Inc. probably has some great verticals to explore, and they probably sold the investors on as much. As for Node.JS dying, anything is possible I guess. PHP is still a monster and I don't think I'll ever understand why that happened completely. Node.js has a good story to tell and from my exp. a lot of PHP / frontend developers found easier transitions to Node.JS than other languages / stacks.