npm vs Reek

Overview

npm

Stacks126.4K

Followers82.2K

Votes1.6K

GitHub Stars17.6K

Forks3.0K

Reek

Stacks9

Followers22

Votes0

GitHub Stars4.1K

Forks282

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Detailed Comparison

npm	Reek
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.	Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 17.6K	GitHub Stars 4.1K
GitHub Forks 3.0K	GitHub Forks 282
Stacks 126.4K	Stacks 9
Followers 82.2K	Followers 22
Votes 1.6K	Votes 0
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	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Atom Sublime Text Vim TextMate Emacs

What are some alternatives to npm, Reek?

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.

Code Climate

After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

Browserify

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

Codacy

Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.

Phabricator

Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

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.

PullReview

PullReview helps Ruby and Rails developers to develop new features cleanly, on-time, and with confidence by automatically reviewing their code.

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.

SonarQube

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.