How to find search/find npm packages

Question

What ways are there to find npm packages?

Below is community maintained listing compiled from the answers below.

NPM Specific

• In console, npm search <keyword>
• https://www.npmjs.org/
• http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/10571033
• http://node-modules.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/13593402
• https://nodejsmodules.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/17821476
• http://npmsearch.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/34471018

Generic

• http://github.com
• https://libraries.io

Dead

• http://browsenpm.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/24338500
• https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
• http://toolbox.no.de/ aka http://nodetoolbox.com/
• http://packagefinder1-enome.dotcloud.com/

Answer 1

It's sad but npm search won't work for me on node version 6+.

A quick workaround is by doing a curl from the command line:

curl --fail -O https://www.npmjs.com/package/q-promise 2>&1 | grep '404'

If this command returns nothing then the module exist if it does return a 404 the name is available for you to use.

Answer 2

http://browsenpm.org/ is a new one by nodejitsu that's quite good, features dependency listings, dependency licenses, community info, among other nifty stuff