NPM (Node Package Manager)

NPM can manage packages that are local dependencies of a particular project, as well as globally installed JavaScript tools. When used as a dependency manager for a local project, NPM can install, in one command, all the dependencies of a project through the package.json file. In the package.json file, each dependency can specify a range of valid versions using the incumbent semantic versioning scheme. This allows Blaze developers to auto-update their packages while at the same time avoiding unwanted ‘breaking changes’, ongoing.

NPM also includes ‘version-bumping’ tools for developers to tag their packages with a particular version. NPM provides a package-lock.json file which has the entry of the exact version used by the project, after evaluating semantic versioning in package.json. 

Blaze relies on NPM to standardise and automate the management of third-party dependencies across services, plugins, and shared UI component libraries.

License: Open Source (Artistic Creative License)