The npm ecosystem—which, according to its parent company, makes up an estimated 97% of the code in modern web applications today—offers some clues to the future.8 Npm, which stands for Node Package Manager, is the platform commonly used by JavaScript developers to install and manage packages, or libraries. (Libraries are prewritten bits of code that other developers can use, instead of having to write the same code from scratch. The ability to legally reuse other people’s code is what allows software developers to work more quickly and efficiently today.)
