What does x packages are looking for funding mean when running npm install

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I usually get  x packages are looking for funding   when running npm install on a react project  Any idea what that means

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npm decided to add a new command  npm fund that will provide more visibility to npm users on what dependencies are actively looking for ways to fund their work   npm install will also show a single message at the end in order to let  user aware that dependencies are looking for funding  it looks like this     npm install packages are looking for funding  run  npm fund  for details    Running npm fund  lt package gt  will open the url listed for that given package right in your browser   For more details look here

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npm fund   lt pkg gt    This command retrieves information on how to fund the dependencies of a given project  If no package name is provided  it will list all dependencies that are looking for funding in a tree-structure in which are listed the type of funding and the url to visit  The message can be disabled using  npm install --no-fund

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First of all  try to support open source developers when you can  they invest quite a lot of their  free  time into these packages  But if you want to get rid of funding messages  you can configure NPM to turn these off  The command to do this is  npm config set fund false --global      or if you just want to turn it off for a particular project  run this in the project directory  npm config set fund false   For details why this was implemented  see  Stokely s and  ArunPratap s answers

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npm install --silent Seems to suppress the funding issue

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These are Open Source projects  or developers  which can use donations to fund to help support their business  In npm the command npm fund will list the urls where you can fund In composer the command composer fund will do the same  While there are options mentioned above using which one can use to get rid of the funding message  but try to support the cause if you can

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When you run npm update in the command prompt  when it is done it will recommend you type a new command called npm fund  When you run npm fund it will list all the modules and packages you have installed that were created by companies or organizations that need money for their IT projects  You will see a list of webpages where you can send them money  So  quot funds quot  means  quot Angular packages you installed that could use some money from you as an option to help support their businesses quot   It s basically a list of the modules you have that need contributions or donations of money to their projects and which list websites where you can enter a credit card to help pay for them

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You can skip fund using   npm install --no-fund YOUR PACKAGE NAME  For example    npm install --no-fund core-js

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