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  5. Duo vs Yarn vs npm

Duo vs Yarn vs npm

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Overview

npm
npm
Stacks137.4K
Followers82.2K
Votes1.6K
GitHub Stars17.6K
Forks3.0K
Duo
Duo
Stacks24
Followers43
Votes1
GitHub Stars3.4K
Forks115
Yarn
Yarn
Stacks28.2K
Followers13.5K
Votes151
GitHub Stars41.5K
Forks2.7K

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Detailed Comparison

npm
npm
Duo
Duo
Yarn
Yarn

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.

Duo is a next-generation package manager that blends the best ideas from Component, Browserify and Go to make organizing and writing front-end code quick and painless.

Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.

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has first-class support for Javascript, HTML and CSS;exposes a unix-y command line interface;pulls source directly from GitHub with semantic versioning;supports source transforms, like Coffeescript or Sass;does not require a manifest
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
17.6K
GitHub Stars
3.4K
GitHub Stars
41.5K
GitHub Forks
3.0K
GitHub Forks
115
GitHub Forks
2.7K
Stacks
137.4K
Stacks
24
Stacks
28.2K
Followers
82.2K
Followers
43
Followers
13.5K
Votes
1.6K
Votes
1
Votes
151
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 648
    Best package management system for javascript
  • 382
    Open-source
  • 327
    Great community
  • 148
    More packages than rubygems, pypi, or packagist
  • 112
    Nice people matter
Cons
  • 5
    Bad at package versioning and being deterministic
  • 5
    Problems with lockfiles
  • 3
    Node-gyp takes forever
  • 1
    Super slow
Pros
  • 1
    Lean and efficient
Pros
  • 85
    Incredibly fast
  • 22
    Easy to use
  • 13
    Open Source
  • 11
    Can install any npm package
  • 8
    Works where npm fails
Cons
  • 16
    Facebook
  • 7
    Sends data to facebook
  • 4
    Should be installed separately
  • 3
    Cannot publish to registry other than npm
Integrations
No integrations availableNo integrations available
JavaScript
JavaScript

What are some alternatives to npm, Duo, Yarn?

RequireJS

RequireJS

RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.

Browserify

Browserify

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

Component

Component

Component's philosophy is the UNIX philosophy of the web - to create a platform for small, reusable components that consist of JS, CSS, HTML, images, fonts, etc. With its well-defined specs, using Component means not worrying about most frontend problems such as package management, publishing components to a registry, or creating a custom build process for every single app.

Verdaccio

Verdaccio

A simple, zero-config-required local private npm registry. Comes out of the box with its own tiny database, and the ability to proxy other registries (eg. npmjs.org), caching the downloaded modules along the way.

pip

pip

It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.

Pika.dev

Pika.dev

It is a new kind of package registry for the modern web. It handles formatting, configuring, building and publishing every package on the registry, so that individual authors don't have to.

Bundler

Bundler

It provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed. It is an exit from dependency hell, and ensures that the gems you need are present in development, staging, and production.

Browserify-CDN

Browserify-CDN

Browsers don't have the require method defined, but Node.js does. With Browserify you can write code that uses require in the same way that you would use it in Node.

Entropic

Entropic

It is a new package registry with a new CLI, designed to be easy to stand up inside your network. It features an entirely new file-centric API and a content-addressable storage system that attempts to minimize the amount of data you must retrieve over a network. This file-centric approach also applies to the publication API.

Open-Registry

Open-Registry

To allow people to control the development, funding and support of the registry itself, by making it fully open-source and transparent for its user and the public

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