<story><title>Npm Private Modules</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/private-modules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>So this reads to me that they&amp;#x27;re simply not going to update the ability to use GIT. Right now you can point to a repo or specific branch &amp;#x2F; tag but it doesn&amp;#x27;t read any of the versioning like bower does, so it can&amp;#x27;t handle versioning properly. If they updated the use of GIT you could completely eliminate the need for this feature.&lt;p&gt;That kinda rubs me the wrong way; it feels like they&amp;#x27;re trying to force this monetization as they&amp;#x27;ve had plenty of us from the community wanting better GIT support for this very reason.&lt;p&gt;Honestly npm isn&amp;#x27;t a very complex piece of software, you could even replace it with bower if you want git with versions. I wonder if any competitors are going to spring up who can simply iterate faster. I won&amp;#x27;t even get started on their login system, ugh.</text></comment>
<story><title>Npm Private Modules</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/private-modules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archgrove</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re already using &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; modules, by hosting them in a private git repo. NPM can install from these, e.g., git+ssh:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user@server:Account&amp;#x2F;Repo.git, without problems. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what value this would add for us, and the URL doesn&amp;#x27;t sell me well on it.</text></comment>