Is npm down right now?
No, it’s up.
npm appears to be up and running normally.
checked responded in 89msHTTP 200
Over the last 7 days, npm has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~215 ms. According to npm's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-07-30 12:06 UTC and lasted 4h 23m (severity: degraded). It was reported as "intermittent Publish Failures".
The npm registry serves JavaScript package downloads for essentially every Node and frontend build in existence. Its impact is disproportionate to its visibility: when the registry degrades, installs and CI pipelines fail worldwide within minutes, even though local development with a warm cache carries on unaffected.