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Both of npm’s published email addresses are dead ends, and the support form needs a login you no longer have. Here is the escalation path that actually reached a human.

Frontier models score 48% to 51% on version-conditioned code generation. The documented cause is API churn, which stable platform APIs largely avoid.

Every gap React filled in 2013 now has a native answer, and three arrived in the last year. The evidence for choosing vanilla JavaScript in 2026.

Named contributors, open GitHub issues, and documented dependencies connect React’s team to shipped JavaScript features.

Built-in fetch, a native test runner, TypeScript without a build step, and a permission model: what Node.js absorbed into the runtime since 2013.

Import maps, Web Components, the Observer APIs, and View Transitions: everything the browser platform gained since React launched.