- A portmanteau of “package document,” referring to the complete metadata object for an npm package that includes information about all available versions, distribution tags, and registry-specific metadata. Unlike a manifest (which describes a single package version), a packument provides a comprehensive view of a package’s entire version history and typically contains fields like
name,dist-tags, and aversionsobject mapping version strings to their respective manifests.
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