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npm funding field

A package.json key, added through npm's RFC process, that declares where to send money for a package; the npm fund command reads it across a dependency tree.

Known aliases

npm fund
package.json funding key

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

npm is the only one of three registries that will tell an API client who to pay

A developer checked npm, PyPI and crates.io for machine-readable funding data using nothing but their public APIs. npm has a declared field whose value arrives in three shapes, PyPI has hand-typed labels, and the sparse index has neither.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption35
Hype gap−12
Incentives30
Confidence55