--- title: Features everyone should steal from npmx | daily.dev description: npmx.dev is a community-built alternative frontend for the npm registry that shipped dozens of features the official site had ignored for years. A curated list... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/features-everyone-should-steal-from-npmx-cnlvorbhy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Features everyone should steal from npmx | daily.dev og:description: npmx.dev is a community-built alternative frontend for the npm registry that shipped dozens of features the official site had ignored for years. A curated list... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/features-everyone-should-steal-from-npmx-cnlvorbhy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CnlVoRBhy.png og:image:alt: Features everyone should steal from npmx og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Features everyone should steal from npmx **[Andrew Nesbitt](https://daily.dev/sources/nesbitt-io)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary npmx.dev is a community-built alternative frontend for the npm registry that shipped dozens of features the official site had ignored for years. A curated list of its standout features includes: transitive install size (not just tarball size), install script disclosure for supply-chain awareness, expandable vulnerable/outdated dependency trees linked to OSV, semver range resolution showing concrete resolved versions, module replacement suggestions pointing to native APIs, ESM/CJS/types badges, multi-forge repository stats, cross-registry availability checks, side-by-side package comparison with scatter plots, version diffing, release timeline with size annotations, download distribution by version, a command palette, 30+ locale i18n with RTL support, accessibility-first design, playground link extraction from READMEs, agent skill detection, AT Protocol-backed social features, and a local-CLI admin connector. The competitive pressure from npmx appears to have already prompted npmjs.com to ship dark mode. The entire project is MIT licensed, providing working reference implementations for every feature. A NuGet equivalent, nugx.org, has already emerged. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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