Homebrew vs JSPM

Overview

Homebrew

Stacks589

Followers515

Votes3

GitHub Stars45.3K

Forks10.6K

JSPM

Stacks139

Followers18

Votes0

Homebrew vs JSPM: What are the differences?

Developers describe Homebrew as "The Missing Package Manager for macOS". Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local. On the other hand, JSPM is detailed as "Frictionless browser package management". It is a package manager for the SystemJS universal module loader, built on top of the dynamic ES6 module loader. You can load npm packages in modern browsers with the native browser ES module loader.

Homebrew and JSPM can be categorized as "Package Managers" tools.

Homebrew is an open source tool with 18.6K GitHub stars and 4.15K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Homebrew's open source repository on GitHub.

Broadly, Feather Direct, LLC, and King's Digital Lab are some of the popular companies that use Homebrew, whereas JSPM is used by Permission Click, Sharp Auction Engine, and Flutaro. Homebrew has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 63 developers stacks; compared to JSPM, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Homebrew	JSPM
Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.	It is a package manager for the SystemJS universal module loader, built on top of the dynamic ES6 module loader. You can load npm packages in modern browsers with the native browser ES module loader.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 45.3K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 10.6K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 589	Stacks 139
Followers 515	Followers 18
Votes 3	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Clean, neat, powerful, fast and furious	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Ruby cURL GNU Bash	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Homebrew, JSPM?

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Elm

Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.

Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

Racket

It is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp. It is designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation. It is also used for scripting, computer science education, and research.

PureScript

A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.

Composer

It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

pnpm

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.

Bun

Develop, test, run, and bundle JavaScript & TypeScript projects—all with Bun. Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit designed for speed, complete with a bundler, test runner, and Node.js-compatible package manager.