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package manager for io.js (npm fork)

<p>&quot;yapm&quot; is a package manager for node.js (npm fork)</p>
<p><img src="https://raw.github.com/rlidwka/yapm/master/changes/images/main.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
<h2 id="changes">Changes</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>improvements in package.json handling:</p>
<ul>
<li>preserve formatting of package.json files</li>
<li>support for package.json5 and package.yaml files (<a href="https://github.com/rlidwka/yapm/blob/master/changes/package-yaml.md">docs</a>, <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/3336">#3336</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4482">#4482</a>).</li>
<li>if package.json or any other json document is malformed, show where the error is (<a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3869">#3869</a>).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>formatting changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>logs have much more clean formatting</li>
<li>added a progress bar showing download progress (<a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4587">#1257</a>)</li>
<li>better search output with github repository links</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>multiple registries support</p>
<ul>
<li>registry-specific configs + security fixes</li>
<li>easier switch between different npm registries</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>semver support for packages installable from github (<a href="https://github.com/rlidwka/yapm/blob/master/changes/github-semver.md">docs</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3014">#3014</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3328">#3328</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3442">#3442</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3511">#3511</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4527">#4527</a>).</p>
</li>
<li><p>a bunch of other minor changes (<a href="https://github.com/rlidwka/yapm/blob/master/changes/minor-fixes.md">docs</a>, <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4573">#4573</a>).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="installation">Installation</h2>
<pre><code class="lang-sh"># install it as a global module (maybe with sudo)
$ npm install -g yapm

# run it just as you&#39;d run npm itself
$ yapm install whatever

# if you want to write &#39;npm&#39; and hate the name change,
# you might want to use an alias (i.e. write into ~/.bashrc)
$ alias npm=yapm
</code></pre>
<h2 id="upstreams">Upstreams</h2>
<h3 id="pulled-from-visionmedia-npm-https-github-com-visionmedia-npm-">Pulled from <a href="https://github.com/visionmedia/npm">visionmedia/npm</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Github semver support</li>
<li>Output formatting changes</li>
<li>Better search output</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="pulled-from-npm-https-github-com-npm-">Pulled from <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm">npm/npm</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Everything else, this repository is synced with upstream at least once a week</li>
</ul>