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  5. LocalStack vs npm

LocalStack vs npm

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Overview

npm
npm
Stacks137.4K
Followers82.2K
Votes1.6K
GitHub Stars17.6K
Forks3.0K
LocalStack
LocalStack
Stacks57
Followers136
Votes33

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Detailed Comparison

npm
npm
LocalStack
LocalStack

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.

LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
17.6K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
3.0K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
137.4K
Stacks
57
Followers
82.2K
Followers
136
Votes
1.6K
Votes
33
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 648
    Best package management system for javascript
  • 382
    Open-source
  • 327
    Great community
  • 148
    More packages than rubygems, pypi, or packagist
  • 112
    Nice people matter
Cons
  • 5
    Bad at package versioning and being deterministic
  • 5
    Problems with lockfiles
  • 3
    Node-gyp takes forever
  • 1
    Super slow
Pros
  • 4
    Integration with Python/nosetests
  • 4
    No dependency on cloud
  • 4
    Local/offline testing
  • 3
    Easy to use
  • 3
    Increases dev speed
Cons
  • 2
    Doesn't work well on Windows
  • 1
    No proper admin panel/web UI
Integrations
No integrations available
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
Amazon SNS
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service

What are some alternatives to npm, LocalStack?

RequireJS

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

Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.

Yarn

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

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.

AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify

A JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers building cloud-enabled applications. The library is a declarative interface across different categories of operations in order to make common tasks easier to add into your application. The default implementation works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources but is designed to be open and pluggable for usage with other cloud services that wish to provide an implementation or custom backends.

awless

awless

awless is a fast, powerful and easy-to-use command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.

Verdaccio

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

pip

It is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes.

Duo

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

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.

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