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Ninja Build

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.

Some of the top features or benefits of Ninja Build are: Speed, Simplicity, Parallelism, Incremental Builds, and Integration. You can visit the info page to learn more.

Best Ninja Build Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

The best Ninja Build alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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    GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

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    SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.

    Open Source

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    Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...

    Open Source

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    CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

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    npm is a package manager for Node.

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    New JSHint website. Anton Kovalyov Oct 1st, 2013. For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a new homepage for JSHint and today I'm proud to announce the new jshint. com! JSHint Website.

    Open Source

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    A high-performance build tool for Android by Facebook

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    Frontend Development

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    Building Software Made Simple

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    Accelerate developer productivity. Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. DocsExplore the documentation of Gradle. Find installation ..

    Open Source

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    Apache Maven is a project comprehension and management software tool.

    Open Source

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    Rollup is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into a larger piece such as application.

    Open Source

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    RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

    Open Source

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