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Webpack
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Rich and flexible plugin infrastructure
Plugins and loaders are easy to write and allow you to control each step of the build, from loading and compiling CoffeeScript, LESS and JADE files to smart post processing and asset manifest building.
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Config file may be hard to understand
Due to a somewhat hard to grasp syntax, configuring Webpack may take some time.
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Tap into npm's huge module ecosystem
Using Webpack opens you up to npm, that has over 80k modules of which a great amount work both client-side and server-side. And the list is growing rapidly.
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Can not load files discovered during runtime
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Can create a single bundle or multiple chunks loaded on demand, to reduce initial loading time
Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded on demand. This reduces the initial loading time.
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Supports source maps for easier debugging
Source maps allow for easier debugging, because they allow you to find the problems within the origin files instead of the output file.
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ES6 module support
Webpack supports ES6 modules and their import and export methods without having to compile them to CommonJS require
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Share the same modules client-side and server-side
Because Webpack allows you to use the same require() function as node.js, you can easily share modules between the client-side and server-side.
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Bundles CommonJs and AMD modules (even combined)
Webpack supports AMD and CommonJS module styles. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries.
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Mix ES6 AMD and CommonJS
Webpack supports using all three module types, even in the same file.
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Limit plugin integration issues
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Volo
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Automatically converts files to AMD for you
Volo is based around AMD, which is great for asynchronous loading, and if you try to add a non-AMD package, it will interactively ask you for its dependencies and exports.
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Does not store components in a registry
Volo installs components directly from urls and repositories, which makes it more susceptible to components being taken down, with fewer guarantees about their availability.
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Provides command endpoints for task management
Volo also allows you to provide a volofile that lets you run various tasks. Volo provides a helper object for running cross platform command line commands, and also allows you to use binaries in node_modules or create your own.
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Quickly bootstrap your project with templates
Volo has a create command that can copy template projects from GitHub, so you can get set up quickly.
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Allows for extensible commands
Sometimes you might require some additional commands, other than the ones Volo provides; Volo has you covered in these cases as well. The package manager is extremely extensible at its core, and can be easily modified and extended.
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Loads packages directly from Github
If any project exists on Github, that means you can use it along with Volo in your frontend projects.
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NPM
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Compatible with any CLI
NPM is compatible with any CLI the developer wants to use.
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Custom tasks require additional keyword 'run'
Only a few standard tasks support being executed without the run keyword (e.g., npm start vs npm run customtask)
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Plenty of helpful NPM modules/plugins
NPM has a strong community that has developed plenty of libraries and plugins that are useful to developers.
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Not a build system, only a task runner
It is supposed to be used for running gulp, webpack or whatever. But it is not supposed to be used as a build system.
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Very concise configuration
NPM scripts require fewer lines of code to run a given task. This is true even when it's for running build processes. Using Unix pipes lots of tasks can be reduced to one-liners.
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Passing parameters is awkward
In order to pass additional parameters to npm you must add them after -- (e.g., npm run build -- --custom='foo').
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Does not need any wrapper modules
With other task runners, you need to install wrapper modules for tools you may already have installed. When using NPM that's not necessary, to use the tools you need, just install them directly through NPM.
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Badly documented
Less than bare minimum official documentation leaves users in the dark without taking often expensive external courses. Even the --help text has unpluggable gaps. One official source notes the documentation isn't adequate yet nothing has been done to fix this.
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Part of node.js distribution
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Lot of issues with authentication and random node problems
Unable to recover from common depencies conflicts consistantly. Error messages are not always helpful to debugging. Doesn't account well for users with different versions of node.
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You're most likely using NPM already
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Does not run well with Windows
Since a lot of projects that use NPM as a build tool most of the time make use of Bash scripts as well. This means that open source projects that run the command npm run may run into issues when used in a Windows environment.
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Uncomplicated package management system
When it works...
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Doesn't allow you to create build process with complicated logic on its own
In complex heterogeneous app you will quickly migrate to gulp, webpack or whatever leaving to NPM only simple task running responsibility.
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Gulp
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Large plugin ecosystem
Currently gulp offers a selection of 1000+ plugins and it is growing rapidly.
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Dead
Gulp is dead, hasn't been updated in 4 years.
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Focuses on code instead of configuration
This depends on your style, but gulp is closer to the code, the actual execution isn't hidden by multiple layers and it's much easier to customize the build system without writing bloated modules. This also brings rather small configuration files.
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Rapidly changing API
While it's good that the gulp maintainers want the api to be as good as possible, it comes at the expense of stability. The upcoming gulp 4.0 release has another update to the way dependency management works which will require everyone to update their build scripts. It also makes it hard to look up information on best practices as the best practices keep changing, making a lot of the blog posts and questions about gulp out of date.
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Allows creating task dependencies
Any task can be set to have other tasks as dependencies. The dependencies are specified through piping streams, and tasks run concurrently if they do not block in dependencies.
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You need to know some limitations that are not very intuitive
There are some features in Gulp which may not be very intuitive, or that otherwise should have been the default features instead of having to implement them through arguments. For example, to keep the correct folder structure when you are copying a file, you have to add {base: "lib/"} as an argument.
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It is possible to use projects that use streams without plugins
Since Gulp just uses streams at its core, you don't actually need a plugin wrapper to use a project that uses streams. If you use this approach, the you don't even have to worry about plugin maintenance at all, and get the bleeding edge updates as soon as they come out even if the plugin hasn't been updated. It also means if a project happens to not have a plugin, you don't need to write a new one, you can just use it as is.
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No incremental building
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Streaming build system makes it easier to apply code transformations
In gulp, it's easy to pipe multiple steps together which you commonly need with build systems. For example, you may need to compile the javascript source files, then package them together, and then minify it. The streaming system makes this much easier. Additionally, it improves performance since all operations are done in memory (compared to I/O operations) and avoids the need of unnecessarily compiling files (compared to Grunt that has to compile all files even if just one has changed).
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Not suited for big and complex apps
Writing gulpfile for complex app which consists of many source types is very cumbersome and flawy process. You'll know when you want to move to webpack.
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Chaining API that's simple and elegant
In Gulp, the transforms are performed through chains which makes it easier to understand the order of operations, and easier to modify it.
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Concurrency allows for high-speed perfomance
Because streams in Gulp use pipes to establish dependency order, they are parallel by default without having to rely on plugins or hacks.
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Minimizes disk operations for improved performance
Because Gulp is built using streams, it can store intermediate transformations in memory and defer writing to disk until the very end. This improves performance by not requiring expensive blocking disk operations for task dependencies.
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The configuration file is easily readable
Gulp's configuration file is actually very readable because it's actual JavaScript instead of a large file of JSON objects. The entry barrier is very low for developers who have never used a task runner before and it's API is very simple, with only 4 methods.
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Gulp modules are usable without Gulp
Because Gulp is built on top of the streaming API, you don't actually need gulp to use them. This could be helpful if you want to re-use those modules outside of gulp, possibly for testing, and using the same modules would be more consistent.
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Gulp tasks run from terminal
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JSPM
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Registry agnostic
JSPM is registry agnostic, it can pull packages from npm and github and is built in such a way it can support more.
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You need to be an expert to write shims
You can load any module. But that comes with the price: you need to find or write configs to load a particular rare module.
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Module style agnostic
Loads ES6, AMD, CommonJS and globals.
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Doesn't hide complexity
JSPM doesn't try to hide complexity from the user. I.e. when some issue emerges you need understand a lot to be able to patch it or create a workaround.
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Can transcompile ES6, JSX and Typescript
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Watcher has bugs
Watching would benefit from improvements
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Much faster than Webpack or Browserify
While Webpack and Browserify recompile the source code using Babel, jspm is the only packager that can load prebuild/minified code downloaded from the npm registry.
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Unstable API
0.17 is still in beta. 0.16 is lacking features.
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Bundled based on imported modules without any config
Create the bundle file without config and add only the modules imported.
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Poor bundler performance
Bundling performance is slow, though offset by the fact that bundling is not required during development, since it can load dependencies asynchronously.
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Switch between async or sync load
With a simple command you could change between load the modules async by systemjs or sync with a bundle file.
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Easy install packages from npm, github or any git repository
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Versioned package urls
It creates a packages folders which are versioned. This makes it future proof for a time where we stop bundling all the code. In the following presentation Guy Bedford calls bundling an anti-pattern.
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Very easy to start with
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just-install
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Open source, free and libre
https://github.com/just-install/just-install
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Limited package selection
Since project is open source there is way to add new packages, but you'll have to figure out how to configure new package and submit pull request. There's no army of volunteers responding to requests.
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Works within Windows guidelines
The programs are listed in Control Panel and can be uninstalled using standard Windows procedure. Downloads from original source, doesn't repackage. It just automates the install process, skipping prompts and dialogs.
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Requires admin command shell, doesn't have built-in UAC.
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Can install bundles, without needing command line parameters
Like Ninite, you can create a custom .exe installer which automatically downloads and installs a package selection -- no command line switches needed. https://just-install.it/customizer.html
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Jam
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Has a central package repository
A central repository provides more guarantees about the availability of the package. With requiring directly from repository urls, the entire project could potentially be taken down on a whim.
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Forced AMD compatibility means fewer libraries
AMD is currently not as popular as CommonJS modules, which means if a library isn't supported, you'll have to deal with it yourself.
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Community is focused on client side javascript
Because Jam only manages Javascript and only works on the client side, you have the assurance that any packages listed are AMD compatible for asynchronous loading.
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Architecture independent
Jam's only a front-end package manager, the rest of your server can be on a different architecture or framework. No matter what the architecture, Jam will integrate easily with it.
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Provides the best AMD compatibility allowing for better asynchronous loading
Jam requires AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition), which means faster package loading, as it can be done asynchronously.
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Fly
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Takes advantage of ES6 features
Fly is written to use new ES6 features like generators and promises.
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Limited number of plugins
There's still a very limited number of Fly plugins. This can contribute negatively in development time and energies spent to make a plugin to complete a task for which there's none yet.
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Support for concurrent tasks
Fly supports parallel processing and concurrent tasks via Fly.prototype.start([tasks], { parallel: true })
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Smaller build files, with same benefits of a huge one
If it's a fly- plugin you don't have to require it like you do with every other build tool. Theres no need for wrapper functions for each plugin (aka .pipe()). If it's a fly- plugin you just call it directly. The build file get's to the point quickly without adding all the extra fluff. This makes your build file very clean and easy to read!
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Very easy to setup
Fly is easy to setup, there are no caveats that you have to know since everything is very intuitive. Also with fly you don't have to repeat your self several times. You just define out what you want and that's it. If it's a fly plugin it will be required automatically without the need for an additional plugin.
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Fly plugins are required automatically
If you want to use a Fly plugin in a flyfile, it's automatically required without needing an additional plugin.
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Can run subtasks inside a task
Fly supports running multiple subtasks in a single task without having to create a new one.
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Number of Plugins:
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Novus
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Extremely Fast Installations
Using multithreaded downloads, Novus installs packages 8 times faster
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Shortage of packages
Novus is still in development, and does not have a lot of packages
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Non Admin Installations
Novus can install any package without an admin terminal. It automatically elevates to an admin terminal without bypassing UAC (User Access Control)
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It does not option to pass arguments to the native installer in the package
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Open Source
Novus is open source (https://github.com/novus-package-manager/novus) This makes it easier for people to contribute and add package manifests
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Quit and Forcequit Feature
Novus has the ability to easily quit and forcequit applications. This has been extremely useful for me, especially when task manager itself is unresponsive
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Quit and Forcequit Feature
Novus has the ability to easily quit and forcequit applications. This has been extremely useful for me, especially when task manager itself is unresponsive
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Brunch
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Compilation is super fast
According to speed benchmarks, Brunch is one of the fastest tools around for compiling files. According to the authors of Brunch the reason behind this speed is that it recompiles only the changes that were made to an app and performs extensive caching of the app's code.
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Time to setup is extremely low
After installing Brunch the next step is to load a skeleton from git.io/skeletons. This step is as easy as installing another plugin from the npm registry, just point Brunch to the path of the required skeleton/generator then wait for it to work out its magic. Next, run brunch build then wait for a second or two and voila! the project is ready.
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The configuration file is small and the configuration itself is fast and easy
Brunch's config files can be extremely small compared to other alternatives. The fact that brunch also allows you to chose from a number of generators also lowers the configuration time considerably.
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Concatenates scripts and styles and auto-generates matching source maps
Brunch automatically produces a source map for all javascript files and CSS stylesheets whenever it minifies an app's resources. This little feature is extremely helpful when debugging is required at the client end.
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Scoop
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Free and Open Source
Github repo can be found here.
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Has a smaller selection of packages than Chocolatey
While Chocolatey seems to have a huge selection of packages including some windows updates, Scoop has a much smaller selection mainly focused on command-line tools. However, it can be argued that Scoop is focusing on a different type of setup than Chocolatey so package count may not be a good comparison.
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Absolutely zero costs
Unlike some competitors, there is no free nor paid version, simply the FLOSS software as it is built.
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Doesn't handle orphan packages
Package maintainers can add other needed packages, but if a package gets uninstalled, it doesn't mark other packages as orphans. (No package relation trees)
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App installs are independent and self-contained; therefore, they have fewer conflicts and are easier to uninstall
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Apps are installed without requiring admin permission
Installing for all users requires admin permissions in order to be secure, so scoop installs without that requiring an elevated command prompt.
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App packages install locally (so users can preserve their own environment) or globally
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Users can easily create their own apps and collections of apps
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Great help available on GitHub Wiki
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Good CLI UX
Packages have well-defined, simple names, without any unnecessary duplication, and are actively maintained. If you are used to Homebrew in OSX, you will (almost) feel at home.
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Installed packages verified by checksums
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Easy to upgrade installed packages
Easy to upgrade installed packages, unlike in Chocolately which makes you pay for upgrade feature.
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Customisable selection
If the standard package selection isn't enough for you, you can easily find additional "buckets" that suit your needs. You can also create your own and share them. See here.
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Simple versioning model for dependencies
In Chocolatey, if a package declares dependencies on a bad version of a package, installation or upgrade might break. Scoop dependencies are the latest version of a package, which reduces the chance of things breaking.
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Sets reasonable default configuration options for apps
E.g. installing npm configures the global package prefix to your local app folder, and curl includes the Mozilla CA list.
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All default packages are portable with a few exceptions
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Great selection of apps for programmers and experienced users
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Does not clog your Program Files folder
Many installers leave behind a folder in your program files & program files (x86) folder. Since Scoop does not normally touch the folder, there is no problem of clogging it.
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Support for ARM64
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Broccoli
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Brocfile fairly straightforward and small
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Windows not fully supported
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Rebuilds are really fast
In larger apps rebuilds get slower and slower as the size of the application increases. Broccoli deals with this by building only the files that were changed and intelligently figuring out their dependencies. This leads to rebuilds being of O(1) constant-time (in Software Engineering terms).
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Assumptions about your project limit what you can do
Assumes you want to always output to single output directory. This directory must not exist at the time of running. It also (therefore) can't be your current directory. This puts broccoli slightly out of the class of a truly general "task runner".
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Chainable plugins
With broccoli developers can chain plugins. var tree = broccoli.makeTree('lib') tree = compileCoffeeScript(tree) tree = uglifyJS(tree) return tree
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Small community
Broccoli's community is still relatively small and not very active, at least compared to it's competitors. This leads to fewer plugins, guides and less support from developers for any problem that you may face using Broccoli.
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GNU Make
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Uses the full power of the UNIX shell
Make takes advantage of the powerful UNIX shell, using it at it's full potential. STDIN and STDOUT are especially useful because of their versatility.
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Doesn't run on Windows by default
Make requires Cygwin/msys2/MinGW to run on Windows.
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No need for wrapper modules
Other build tools need wrapper modules to do certain tasks. The biggest disadvantage of these wrapper modules is that they bind you to a version of that tool. With Make you don't have that problem, there's no need for wrappers and no tools to bind you to a version, you can use any version of Make that you want.
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Works with more than just node.js
Since it's written in C and can be found in all UNIX-based systems it can be used on platforms other than node.js.
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Chocolatey
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Large number of applications/utilities available
Chocolatey has a massive community package repository of installs (more than 4,000 packages), and its open nature allows everyone to contribute more as needed.
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Sometimes hard to know which package to install from community package repository
The community repository contains multiple packages with similar names, making it hard to know which one to install. This is of course only related to using Chocolatey with the community repository, and you can look up the number of downloads to see which are the most widely used.
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Sieg
Installs silently without crapware.
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Some package installs aren't good or polished or don't install well
Macrium downloads the online installer, 7-zip doesn't associate files, PotPlayer is outdated, etc.
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Easy to use
Just open powershell and type choco install firefox to install Firefox, or choco install java to install Java.
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Unable to easily change your install directory in the free version
In the free version you must know the native installer switches and pass them through with install args. In the paid versions you have a ubiquitous install directory option where Chocolatey determines how to properly pass that to the underlying native installer. Details on the differences.
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Straightforward install process
To install Chocolatey simply copy the text from their site and paste it into either cmd.exe or powershell.
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Buggy
Slow, many packages fail to install, and config can corrupt causing it to not be able to manage packages anymore, leading to a bunch of installed and non-updateable software
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Upgrade all software with one command
choco upgrade all is like Windows Update for all of your 3rd party software. ... or for the more succinct command use 'cup' !!
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Incomplete and conflicting package options
Not enough maintenance done to package library so there are different similarly-named or -versioned packages available, some broken and some not.
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Downloaded files are verified by checksums
Chocolatey requires checksums by default for files downloaded over non-secure locations and highly recommends it for HTTPS/SSL locations. It is moving towards requiring checkums by default for downloading from secure locations.
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Can not download asynchronously
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Manages the entire software lifecycle
From install to upgrade to uninstall, Chocolatey manages the whole process.
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No support for ARM64
Users with Windows on Arm can't install native ARM64 binaries. Apps installed with Chocolatey run slower and need more resources on Windows on Arm because they have to be emulated.
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Scriptable
You can put Chocolatey install commands into your powershell scripts.
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Uploading packages can be time consuming
It can take weeks to have a package accepted and with a fair amount of resubmitting for the dev/ maintainer.
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Free and open source
It's licensed under Apache License 2.0 with source code available on GitHub.
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Doesn't care about supporting the community
They used the community to make it the largest repository of packages. Now that they're the de facto standard package manager, they only care to support those that pay them and refuse to fix problems with popular packages.
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Decentralized package sources
Packages can be installed from multiple sources, including private sources.
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Builds on technologies you know
Unattended installation and PowerShell.
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GUI available
There's a package called ChocolateyGUI that can be installed and lets you use Chocolatey with a UI frontend.
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Integrates with almost every configuration management / infrastructure automation / RMM tool
Chocolatey integrates with almost every infrastructure automation tool out there.
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Support and features available for organizations
There is a business edition available for organizations that need more support. The business edition also includes a Package Synchronizer, Package Internalizer, Package Builder, and a host of other features.
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Can be extended with PowerShell
Chocolatey allows installing extension packages that add PowerShell functions to your package automation scripts.
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More Selection
It has programs that can't be found in scoop or ninite.
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Custom sources
It has ability to add custom sources.
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Pint
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Potentially unsupported
No activity on repo in 2 years as of Oct 2015
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Uncertainties integration
Transparently handles calculations with quantities with uncertainties (like 3.14±0.01) meter via the uncertainties package.
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Configuration files are bloated and long
Pint's configuration files are the same as Grunt's. Meaning that they are long and hard to read, especially for new users.
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Supports both Python 2 and Python 3
A single codebase that runs unchanged in Python 2.7+ and Python 3.0+.
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NumPy compatibility
It supports a lot of numpy mathematical operations without monkey patching or wrapping numpy.
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Supports any numerical type
Supports fraction, float, decimal, numpy.ndarray, etc.
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Uses jobs to prevent bloated build files
Using Grunt in complex projects can lead to extremely bloated build files. Pint resolves this issue by introducing Jobs, a job is basically a set of Grunt tasks that are related to a particular build step. Using this method the build code remains organized in different job files, for example one for js compilation and one for CSS preprocessing. When the build process is started, Pint starts running these job files which in turn build the project. Here's a sample Pintfile.js further demonstrating the concept of jobs in PintJS.
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Faster builds with built-in concurrency
Every job in a build process may depend on something before it. A simple example would be copying of the minified files to the dist directory, this task needs to be performed after the compilation is complete. What Pint does is that it lets the user declare the dependencies within each job in a dependsOn array. Hence whenever PintJS starts the build process it first generates an internal dependency model so that the build could be parallelized by spawning up new Grunt processes wherever possible resulting in the complete build process being concurrent (and really fast!).
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Takes advantage of Grunt's huge plugin ecosystem
Pint is built on Grunt, so it can use Grunt's plugins. Grunt has a plugin for pretty much any need with over 4000 plugins currently available.
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Simplified build lifecycle
In some projects there are tasks that aren't related to the build at all. These can be simple tasks such as pulling the GIT SHA or reading the package.json file into variables. With Pint these additional tasks can be defined in the build file too. This is made possible by providing users with an initializr and a finalizr; inside the initialize callback, tasks such as generation of a list of test files or reading the package.json file can be defined, while in the finalize callback users can define moving of the build files or pushing the source maps to their server.
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Limited selection of apps
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Handles updates for you
Save yourself from having to manually update all those small apps that don't auto-update themselves.
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Installs apps only in their default location
Very unfortunate for those having their system on a budget or even mid-tier SSD.
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Well adapted to the Windows environment
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No command-line interface in free version
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Install in bulk, without the restarts
Perfect for getting a fresh install of Window up to speed in as little time as possible.
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No toolbars or extra junk
Ninite's installation does not install "extra features" offered during installation.
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Saves you from manually filling in all the details of installation
Installs apps to their default locations, using your PC's language or one you choose, using Internet Explorer's proxy settings (so you can quickly get Chrome, Firefox, or Opera up and running on a fresh Window install).
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Curated list of commonly used quality software
Everything from Steam and iTunes to Putty and Eclipse - likely has most, if not all of the major free applications you use on a regular basis. Check the website for the full list.
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Verifies file checksums
Ninite makes sure that you've downloaded the right file, and that it's not corrupted, by checking the file checksums for each application. This means that you're less likely to end up with a buggy app, or to accidentally download malware/viruses, all with no extra work.
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Grunt compatibility issues
Changes in different versions in grunt are not always backwards-compatible.
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Configurations are easy to write
Grunt emphasizes configuration over code. As such grunt configurations are easy to write. Writing them does not require knowledge of streams, promises, concurrency, or asynchronous tasks to set up.
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Large bloated configuration files
To configure Grunt, developers need to basically write large files and configure JSON objects. While it's very powerful, the sheer complexity of it's configuration file may be a large obstacle for newcomers and developers that have not used any automation tools before. This may push them to search for simpler alternatives.
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Has tons of plugins
Grunt has been available for a long time and during this time it has garnered a large community of dedicated developers who have made more than 4000 grunt plugins available to be used.
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Grunt lost mindshare in general
Grunt can only do what the individual plugins allow it to do. New tools aren't always being made available for Grunt, nor are they always being updated as quickly, so you're stuck with an aging ecosystem.
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Plugins configured out of the box
The default behaviors for most plugins is normally what you want, so if you just use a plugin without configuring it, it will work for most use cases.
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The need to track creation/movement of files
Debugging and augmenting grunt pipelines are much harder than other build systems that clearly show the pipelines in the code. Grunt works on files so you must track where each task puts files and try and intercept that in a task if you want to add something in the middle of a build pipeline.
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A GUI front-end via spock
A graphical user interface for grunt is available via spock.
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Choice of using it as a config file or writing your own functions
You can use Grunt as a config file or JavaScript by writing your functions via Node Modules.
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Grunt v1.0 alpha uses Orchestrator for maximum concurrency
Grunt version 1 alpha, aka grunt-next, the upcoming next major release of Grunt, uses Orchestrator to sequence and execute tasks and dependencies with maximum concurrency, potentially bringing it up to speed with Gulp in term of performance.
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An API that makes writing and using of plugins extremely easy
The API is built in such a way that if you write a Grunt task that is useful for someone else out there or would be useful for future projects, it can be easily made into a grunt plugin and then shared using npm.
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Shell commands inside Grunt
There is a Grunt plugin called grunt-exec which allows developers to execute shell commands inside their Grunt files. This is extremely easy if a developer is developing only in Node and constantly getting out of Node environment to run something like a git command can become frustrating.
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Debuggable
Using Gobble is even easier when you consider the fact that it's extremely debuggable.
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Still in active development
Since Gobble is still in active development it's API may change and it's documentation is not fully ready yet.
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Very easy to write plugins
Gobble's API is very easy to learn and very intuitive. This makes it very easy for developers to write different plugins for tasks that they may need.
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