Any update on this?
+1 to have npm-7 please :-)
I would also like to know the status please. If we shouldn't wait it's fine, obviously, but I'd like to know.
This would be great to have. I can no longer build the net-mgmt/prometheus2 assets with ports alone because v6 is now too old to build the web frontend. I'm working around this currently by using npm v6 to install npm v8 and adding that to $PATH before the build tries to run npm.
My script to generate the tarball for ports was gone. And I'm quite busy recently. Here's npm 8.2.0 (latest). Try this, https://github.com/sunpoet/freebsd-ports-www-npm Please test it and report if it works fine. I'll commit it soon. Thanks.
Update to 8.2.0 in 0593ac6276513780396ec01256a5a14993067f1b. Update to 8.3.2 in 440fbe7ad9af28fb14dc5ca2d73c8c6528bfdb81. Thanks.