Is GitHub Package Registry the npm killer?

Liviu Ionescu

The npm login requirement for consuming packages is almost a show stopper for many/most regular users. Right now I maintain some CLI tools based on Node.js, and everybody can install them anonymously with npm, no questions asked. I simply cannot migrate them to the GitHub Package Registry, since this will break all scripts using these tools, not to mention all CI/CD environments. I disagree, the npm login requirement is really an ugly, a very bad one.