Dash vs npm
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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. | Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. |
| - | 150+ offline docsets;Instant, fuzzy search;Great integration with other apps;Easily download docsets;Easily generate docsets:;Supports AppleDoc docsets;Supports Doxygen docsets;Supports CocoaDocs docsets;Supports Python / Sphinx docsets;Supports Ruby / RDoc docsets;Supports Javadoc docsets;Supports Scaladoc docsets;Supports Any HTML docsets;Easily switch between docsets:;Smart search profiles;Docset keywords;Documentation bookmarks;Convenient, filterable table of contents;Highlighted in-page search |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 17.6K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 3.0K | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 137.4K | Stacks 314 |
Followers 82.2K | Followers 408 |
Votes 1.6K | Votes 63 |
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What are some alternatives to npm, Dash?
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 lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
Yarn
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.
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.
DevDocs
DevDocs is an API documentation browser that combines multiple docs in a single web UI with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
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
It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.
AnyAPI
AnyAPI is a curated list of publicly available APIs. APIs Guru provides Swagger specifications for over 100 APIs, which are then passed to LucyBot to generate the documentation and API consoles.
Duo
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.
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.
