The Web faction has taken over large portions of the software world. What startet out as a crazy bunch of designers building increasingly sophisticated UIs and reactive documents has since become the behemoth platform of user-facing software and digital services.

With increasingly complex stacks and toolchains came new requirements for distributed software development including a package and software component service. That was npm.

However, things never stand still in the World of the Web and the architects of Node and it’s successor Deno have come up with a new package service that is quickly becoming the new standard. The JavaScript Registry JSR defaults to TypeScript rather than its JavaScript subset and to ECMA-Script modules, enabling an up-to-date approach for handling independent, free and open standard Web software package management. The developers themselves make a solid case for the need of JSR which comes as a wrapper and superset of existing npm infrastructure.

If you’re starting a new Jamstack project from scratch, use jsr rather than npm. It’s the new way. And for good reasons too.