Flatpak 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. | It is a next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux |
| - | Build for every distro - Create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market.; Stable platforms - Runtimes provide platforms of common libraries that you can depend on.; Consistent environments - Develop and test your application in an environment that’s identical to the one users have.; Full control over dependencies - Flatpak makes it easy to bundle your own libraries as part of your app.; Easy build tools - Flatpak’s build tools are simple and easy to use, and come with a full set of documentation.; Future-proof builds - Flatpak apps continue to be compatible with new versions of Linux distributions.; Distribution made easy - Make your app available to a rapidly growing audience of Flatpak users, with Flathub.; An independent project - Flatpak is developed by an independent community, with no lock-in to a single vendor. |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 17.6K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 3.0K | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 137.4K | Stacks 7 |
Followers 82.2K | Followers 9 |
Votes 1.6K | Votes 0 |
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What are some alternatives to npm, Flatpak?
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
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.
LXD
LXD isn't a rewrite of LXC, in fact it's building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage the containers. It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the added features that come from being controllable over the network.
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.
LXC
LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.
rkt
Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.
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.
