NPMX
Hacker ApprovedNpm registry browser in Developer tools
Fast, well-designed browser for the npm registry, with built-in API docs and source browsing. Critics say the page is cluttered.
Fast, well-designed browser for the npm registry, with built-in API docs and source browsing. Critics say the page is cluttered.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Very fast search and pages
“When I checked the site yesterday after reading this, I found that npmx was indeed faster.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” “The search is remarkably snappy though, almost uncannily fast.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” “the results were appearing before I'd finished the keystroke”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” - Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry”
- Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry”
Clean, well-designed interface
“Loving the user interface and how it is well designed.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” “I think it looks cool. I like the mouseover effects.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” “npmx correctly uses color to draw attention to it”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” - Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Cluttered, bloated page
“The npmx page doesn't have any other colors, it's all gray, and the page has too many elements that are too cluttered.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry” “searching inside a bloated web browser”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry”
What people said
23 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I took that inspiration from npmx.dev”
“There's no ads and it's more or less all client side.”
“1000 moved to npmx hosting in the past ~3 weeks”
“Loving the user interface and how it is well designed.”
“Currently it breaks words over without hyphenation, which makes some sentences hard to understand.”
“When I checked the site yesterday after reading this, I found that npmx was indeed faster.”
“It's not merely sticky, if you make your window too small for it to fit, it does interesting things.”
“Looks awesome! Definitely step in a right direction.”
“The creators of this project are people with a track record of creating popular, high quality, useful Javascript projects.”
“npmx correctly uses color to draw attention to it”
“The npmx page doesn't have any other colors, it's all gray, and the page has too many elements that are too cluttered.”
“Crazy damn speed. Beautiful to look at too.”
“It's just generally vastly nicer.”
“searching inside a bloated web browser”
“the results were appearing before I'd finished the keystroke”
“This is super fast for both search and the details page”
“Confusing name as npx exists”
“It's good npmx.dev shows git and https dependencies.”
“I think it looks cool. I like the mouseover effects.”
“The search is remarkably snappy though, almost uncannily fast.”
“Scrolling fast on Firefox + Chrome is broken and resets the search results page to start.”
“Aaaand, it's down. Is it's inability to handle light load what makes it modern?”
“having built-in API docs and source code browsing is nice”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.