Vue CLI vs pkg

pkg vs Vue CLI: 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 Vue CLI? Standard Tooling for Vue.js Development. Vue CLI aims to be the standard tooling baseline for the Vue ecosystem. It ensures the various build tools work smoothly together with sensible defaults so you can focus on writing your app instead of spending days wrangling with config.

pkg and Vue CLI can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

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, Vue CLI provides the following key features:

• Feature Rich - Out-of-the-box support for Babel, TypeScript, ESLint, PostCSS, PWA, Unit Testing & End-to-end Testing.
• Extensible
• No Need to Eject

pkg and Vue CLI are both open source tools. It seems that Vue CLI with 22K GitHub stars and 3.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than pkg with 14.1K GitHub stars and 540 GitHub forks.