[seldo]

We're glad private repos work for you :-) However, the overwhelming feedback from our users has been that git dependencies are a gigantic pain in the neck, and this has been our own personal experience as users of npm. Much like npm itself, we are doing something you could do without npm, it's just much easier with npm, and we hope that reduction in friction is valuable :-)

[Touche]

I take this to mean you won't be improving git dependencies then.

[thom_nic]

Is it modeled strictly per-user or is there any notion of an "organization" similar to Github? It's hard to imagine a business having to manage paying for a bunch of individual accounts so they can have access to the company's private repo.

[mts_]

Organization accounts are coming soon:

  Currently, private packages are only available for individual users, but support for organization accounts is coming soon. Feel free to create a user for your organization in the meantime, and we can upgrade it to an organization when support is here.

https://www.npmjs.com/private-modules#organizations

[warfangle]

NPM Enterprise is a potential solution. You have to host it yourself, but it gives you namespaced modules and the option of selectively mirroring the public registry.