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pkg vs Velocity.js: What are the differences?
What is pkg? Package your Node.js project into an executable. This command line interface enables you to package your Node.js project into an executable that can be run even on devices without Node.js installed.
What is Velocity.js? An incredibly fast animation engine for motion designers. It is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's $.animate(). It works with and without jQuery. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined.
pkg and Velocity.js belong to "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by pkg are:
- Make a commercial version of your application without sources
- Make a demo/evaluation/trial version of your app without sources
- Instantly make executables for other platforms (cross-compilation)
On the other hand, Velocity.js provides the following key features:
- Color animation
- Transforms
- Loops
pkg and Velocity.js are both open source tools. It seems that Velocity.js with 16.2K GitHub stars and 1.53K forks on GitHub has more adoption than pkg with 14.5K GitHub stars and 561 GitHub forks.
