npm vs Runnable
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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. | Runnable saves time and frustration caused by development pipeline and the staging server by providing full-stack environments for every code branch, and any application. |
| - | Environments are created and kept up-to-date automatically based on branch activity.; Environments are full-stack, including replicated databases and other services needed to run your stack.; Run end-to-end tests for every code change, including support for Selenium/Webdriver tests.; Environment links and test results are posted on the Pull Request pages in GitHub for easier reviews. |
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GitHub Stars 17.6K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 3.0K | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 137.4K | Stacks 7 |
Followers 82.2K | Followers 15 |
Votes 1.6K | Votes 0 |
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What are some alternatives to npm, Runnable?
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.
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.
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.
CodePicnic
Want to explain some client-side code or server-side project? We made it happen. Say "Hi" to CodePicnic. Your neighborhood platform for sharing and running code in the browser.
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
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.
qonqrete
QonQrete is a local-first, agentic AI orchestration system designed for secure, observable, and human-in-the-loop software construction. It coordinates autonomous AI agents to plan, execute, and review code generation — all within an isolated sandbox environment on your own infrastructure. Think of it like a local-first, agentic AI “construction yard” that plans, writes, reviews, and version-controls your code inside a safe sandbox on your own machine.
