Underscore vs pkg

Overview

Underscore

Stacks1.9K

Followers589

Votes290

GitHub Stars27.4K

Forks5.5K

pkg

Stacks129

Followers62

Votes0

pkg vs Underscore: What are the differences?

What is pkg? Package your Node.js project into an executable. This command line interface enables you to package your Node.js project into an executable that can be run even on devices without Node.js installed.

What is Underscore? JavaScript's utility _ belt. A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

pkg and Underscore can be primarily classified as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

pkg and Underscore are both open source tools. It seems that Underscore with 24.6K GitHub stars and 5.41K forks on GitHub has more adoption than pkg with 13.9K GitHub stars and 524 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Underscore, pkg

Abigail

Dec 6, 2019

Decided

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) provides standard data objects in JSON format for the healthcare industry. Since JSON objects are hierarchical and tree-like, we had a need to defensively 'pluck' fields from our JSON objects and do lots of mapping. We tried jQuery and Underscore and a few other technologies like FHIRPath; but Lodash has been the most well supported, works in the most contexts, has the cleanest syntax, etc. We particularly like the ES6 version of Lodash, where we can import the method names directly, without resorting to * or _ syntax. We got hooked on the 'get' function to defensively pluck fields from objects without crashing our user interface, and have found countless uses for the other lodash functions throughout our apps. Lodash is great for developing and optimizing algorithms.

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Detailed Comparison

Underscore	pkg
A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.	This command line interface enables you to package your Node.js project into an executable that can be run even on devices without Node.js installed.
-	Make a commercial version of your application without sources;Make a demo/evaluation/trial version of your app without sources;Instantly make executables for other platforms (cross-compilation);Make some kind of self-extracting archive or installer;No need to install Node.js and npm to run the packaged application;No need to download hundreds of files via npm install to deploy your application. Deploy it as a single file;Put your assets inside the executable to make it even more portable;Test your app against new Node.js version without installing it
Statistics
GitHub Stars 27.4K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 5.5K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 1.9K	Stacks 129
Followers 589	Followers 62
Votes 290	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 85 Utility 55 Simple 40 Functional programming 32 Fast 28 Open source	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	npm

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