Lineman vs SlushJS

Overview

Lineman

Stacks9

Followers16

Votes1

GitHub Stars1.2K

Forks80

SlushJS

Stacks13

Followers32

Votes0

GitHub Stars1.2K

Forks54

Lineman vs SlushJS: What are the differences?

Lineman: A tool to help you build fat-client webapp projects. Lineman is a command-line utility that is hyper-focused on helping web developers build first-class JavaScript web applications. Lineman provides a thin wrapper around a number of client-side productivity tools (primarily Express, Grunt, and Testem), with the goal of helping developers focus on writing awesome web apps instead of worrying about workflow configuration; SlushJS: The streaming scaffolding system - Gulp as a replacement for Yeoman. Slush is a scaffolding tool, i.e. a tool to help you generate new project structures to get you up and running with your new project in a matter of seconds.

Lineman and SlushJS belong to "Front End Scaffolding Tools" category of the tech stack.

Lineman and SlushJS are both open source tools. It seems that SlushJS with 1.23K GitHub stars and 56 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lineman with 1.21K GitHub stars and 88 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Lineman	SlushJS
Lineman is a command-line utility that is hyper-focused on helping web developers build first-class JavaScript web applications. Lineman provides a thin wrapper around a number of client-side productivity tools (primarily Express, Grunt, and Testem), with the goal of helping developers focus on writing awesome web apps instead of worrying about workflow configuration.	Slush is a scaffolding tool, i.e. a tool to help you generate new project structures to get you up and running with your new project in a matter of seconds.
-	Scaffold new projects
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.2K	GitHub Stars 1.2K
GitHub Forks 80	GitHub Forks 54
Stacks 9	Stacks 13
Followers 16	Followers 32
Votes 1	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Open source	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Grunt	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Lineman, SlushJS?

Yeoman

Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that can help developers quickly build beautiful, compelling web apps. It is comprised of yo - a scaffolding tool using our generator system, grunt - a task runner for your build process and bower for dependency management.

Fabrk

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