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30 projects

live from source · api.github.com · Oct 29, 2:40 AM UTC
#1Homebrew /

brew

🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere

★ 50.1kBSD-2-ClauseRubypushed today
#2yarnpkg /

yarn

The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry

★ 41.5kJavaScriptpushed 5mo ago
#3pnpm /

pnpm

Fast, disk space efficient package manager

★ 36.9kMITRustpushed today
#4python-poetry /

poetry

Python packaging and dependency management made easy

★ 34.3kMITPythonpushed today
#5composer /

composer

Dependency Manager for PHP

★ 29.6kMITPHPpushed today
#6microsoft /

vcpkg

C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

★ 27.5kMITCMakepushed today
#7Devolutions /

UniGetUI

UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers

★ 26.7kMITC#pushed today
#8microsoft /

winget-cli

WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

★ 26.5kMITC++pushed today
#9folke /

lazy.nvim

💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim

★ 21.7kApache-2.0Luapushed 4mo ago
#10NixOS /

nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

★ 17.9kLGPL-2.1C++pushed today
#11rust-lang /

cargo

The Rust package manager

★ 15.6kApache-2.0Rustpushed today
#12CocoaPods /

CocoaPods

The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

★ 14.8kRubypushed 3mo ago
#13volta-cli /

volta

Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

★ 13.1kRustpushed 11mo ago
#14xmake-io /

xmake

🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

★ 12.3kApache-2.0Luapushed today
#15chocolatey /

choco

Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

★ 11.6kC#pushed today
#16mason-org /

mason.nvim

Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.

★ 10.5kApache-2.0Luapushed 4mo ago
#17npm /

cli

the package manager for JavaScript

★ 10.2kJavaScriptpushed today
#18pkgxdev /

pkgx

Run Anything

★ 9.9kApache-2.0Rustpushed 2d ago
#19platformio /

platformio-core

Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:

★ 9.6kApache-2.0Pythonpushed 12d ago
#20conan-io /

conan

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

★ 9.5kMITPythonpushed today
#21MuntashirAkon /

AppManager

A full-featured package manager and viewer for Android

★ 9.4kJavapushed 10d ago
#22pdm-project /

pdm

A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

★ 8.7kMITPythonpushed yesterday
#23zsh-users /

antigen

The plugin manager for zsh.

★ 8.4kMITShellpushed 19d ago
#24antfu-collective /

ni

💡 Use the right package manager

★ 8.3kMITTypeScriptpushed 19d ago
#25yarnpkg /

berry

📦🐈 Active development trunk for Yarn ⚒

★ 8.1kBSD-2-ClauseTypeScriptpushed yesterday
#26mamba-org /

mamba

The Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager

★ 8.1kBSD-3-ClauseC++pushed 3d ago
#27prefix-dev /

pixi

Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.

★ 7.9kBSD-3-ClauseRustpushed today
#28hacs /

integration

HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of all your custom needs.

★ 7.9kMITPythonpushed today
#29spack /

spack

A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

★ 5.2kApache-2.0Pythonpushed today
#30zdharma-continuum /

zinit

🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager

★ 4.9kMITShellpushed yesterday