Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to pnpm

The top open-source alternatives to pnpm are Yarn, NixOS, and Homebrew. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Yarn Landing Page
1

Yarn

Yarn is a package manager for your code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #JS Build Tools 107 social mentions
NixOS Landing Page
2

NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
3

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 877 social mentions
Bower Landing Page
4

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#JS Build Tools #Front End Package Manager #Web Application Bundler 5 social mentions
Grunt Landing Page
5

Grunt

The Grunt ecosystem is huge and it's growing every day.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#JS Build Tools #Front End Package Manager #Web Application Bundler 14 social mentions
NuGet Landing Page
6

NuGet

The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 38 social mentions
AppGet Landing Page
7

AppGet

Free and Opensource package manager for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace 2 social mentions
Webpack Landing Page
8

Webpack

Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Application Bundler #JS Build Tools #Module Bundler 220 social mentions
Verdaccio Landing Page
9

Verdaccio

Verdaccio is a lightweight private npm proxy registry built in Node.js
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Code Collaboration #Front End Package Manager 27 social mentions
Sinon.JS Landing Page
10

Sinon.JS

Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Testing #Automated Testing 20 social mentions
RubyGems Landing Page
11

RubyGems

RubyGems. org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and then install them. Use the API find out more about available gems. Become a contributor and improve the site yourself.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Code Collaboration 95 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
12

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions