What is NuGet?
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
NuGet is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Who uses NuGet?
Companies
121 companies reportedly use NuGet in their tech stacks, including ViaVarejo, Mews, and Global.
Developers
545 developers on StackShare have stated that they use NuGet.
NuGet Integrations
Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET Zero, WhiteSource, and FOSSA are some of the popular tools that integrate with NuGet. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with NuGet.
Pros of NuGet
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NuGet Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to NuGet?
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
Chocolatey
It is based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, It adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction.
ProGet
It allows users to host and manage personal or enterprise-wide packages, applications, and components. It was originally designed as a private NuGet manager and symbol and source server.
