I think i know what's going on here, but don't quote me on that, it's just a theory. NPM was always criticized especiall by Angular community for not accounting for "behind the firewall npm downloads", let me explain how this works, because this is the same setup as at our enterprise, most big enterprises don't connect directly to npm but use an internal proxy npm, which also handles caching, so when i do npm install, I don't get all packages directly from npm but from our internal proxy, which checks the cache if it's up to date with npm, if it is, the proxy hands me the cached version to go fatser. NPM stats don't account for those downloads which is REALLY bad for Angular because it's mostly an enterprise framework, and most of the enterprise world uses this internal npm proxy technique, so most of the downloads don't even show up on the official npm stats. My theory is they've made a huge update to the stats system, went down for the update, (which explains the dip), and then when they've went up again the stats started to account for behind the firewalls downloads, which turned out to be a huge chunk of angular downloads, as we all expected. More on reddit.com

Use their API and a simple http request to get the images More on reddit.com

Axios can do the task perfectly. No need to use any additional modules.

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With that level of question: Nowhere. V8 is a C++ library, which can be embedded into applications by writing C++ code. To run JavaScript code you should use a ready made application. For V8 these commonly are either a Webbrowser (Chrome, Chromium, Edge) or Node.js, which use V8 and make it available to people who are no C++ programmers. I believe, what you are looking for is Node.js. More on reddit.com