Hex vs pnpm

Overview

Hex

Stacks53

Followers29

Votes0

GitHub Stars1.0K

Forks198

pnpm

Stacks314

Followers100

Votes11

GitHub Stars33.1K

Forks1.2K

Hex vs pnpm: What are the differences?

What is Hex? Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem. Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.

What is pnpm? Fast, disk space efficient package manager. It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.

Hex and pnpm belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.

Hex is an open source tool with 616 GitHub stars and 130 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hex's open source repository on GitHub.

Detailed Comparison

Hex	pnpm
Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.	It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.
-	Fast. As fast as npm and Yarn; Efficient. One version of a package is saved only ever once on a disk; Great for multi-package repositories (a.k.a. monorepos); See the recursive commands; Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its package.json; Deterministic. Has a lockfile called pnpm-lock.yaml; Works everywhere. Works on Windows, Linux and OS X; Aliases. Install different versions of the same package or import it using a different name.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.0K	GitHub Stars 33.1K
GitHub Forks 198	GitHub Forks 1.2K
Stacks 53	Stacks 314
Followers 29	Followers 100
Votes 0	Votes 11
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 4 Fast 3 Uses less disk space 2 Works as a Node.js package manager 1 Has a nice UI 1 Has CLI auto-completion
Integrations
Elixir Erlang	Linux macOS Windows

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