The DevEx Compass: Package & build

How a dot is placed

No dot is placed by hand. Each tool earns 10 points per criterion it meets, with a source. Ties sit in a small cluster around the same point.

Developer ergonomics west → east

One command starts it. A single command brings up the whole thing it manages.
Works with little config. Useful out of the box, or with a short generated config.
Fast feedback on change. Live reload, file sync or incremental rebuilds in seconds.
Clear errors and diagnostics. Says what broke and how to fix it, or ships a doctor-style check.
Built-in UI. A web dashboard, TUI or desktop app, not only raw logs.
Quickstart in minutes. Official docs get a newcomer to a working result in about ten minutes.
macOS, Linux and Windows. Supported on all three, natively or through WSL.
Local, no account. Runs on your machine without signing up or a network round trip.
Light and quick to start. Starts in seconds and does not need a large VM or many GB of RAM.
Agent-ready. An MCP server, a JSON output mode or an API an AI agent can drive.

Complexity and production parity south → north

Real containers. Runs or builds OCI containers.
Many services at once. Brings up and coordinates several services together.
Prod-like networking. Service-to-service networking, DNS or ingress like production.
Real stateful dependencies. Databases, queues or volumes, not only in-memory fakes.
Same artifacts as production. Uses the images, bundles or lockfiles that production uses.
Kubernetes semantics. Manifests, pods, Helm charts or a real Kubernetes API.
Cloud APIs. Emulates or reaches real cloud provider APIs.
Prod-like config and secrets. Environment, config and secrets handled the way production handles them.
Logs, metrics and traces. Exposes telemetry the way production does.
Scales to big teams. Built for many services and many developers sharing a setup.

The same tools as a table

Tool	Family	Category	Ring	License	Ergonomics	Parity
npm The package manager bundled with Node.js	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	50	10
pnpm Fast, disk-efficient Node package manager	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Yarn Node package manager with workspaces and Plug'n'Play	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	20
Bun JavaScript runtime, package manager and bundler in one	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	70	10
Deno JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with built-in tooling	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	70	10
uv Fast Python package and project manager	Package & build	Package managers	Trial	Open source	80	10
pip The standard Python package installer	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Poetry Python dependency management and packaging	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	10
PDM Standards-based Python package and project manager	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	50	10
Hatch Python project manager with environments and builds	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	0
Pipenv Python virtualenv and Pipfile.lock manager	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Rye Experimental Python project manager, superseded by uv	Package & build	Package managers	Hold	Open source	50	10
Conda Cross-language package and environment manager	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	30	10
Pixi Fast conda and PyPI project manager with lockfiles	Package & build	Package managers	Trial	Open source	70	10
Cargo Rust's package manager and build tool	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Go modules Go's built-in dependency management	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	90	20
Maven Convention-based Java build and dependency tool	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	30	20
Gradle Build automation and dependency tool for the JVM	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	20
Composer Dependency manager for PHP	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	60	10
Bundler Gem dependency manager for Ruby	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	60	10
NuGet Package manager for .NET	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	20
Homebrew Package manager for macOS and Linux	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	0
Swift Package Manager Swift's built-in package and build manager	Package & build	Package managers	Adopt	Open source	40	10
mise Polyglot tool versions, env vars and tasks	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	80	20
asdf Plugin-based version manager for many runtimes	Package & build	Version managers	Trial	Open source	30	10
nvm Shell script to manage Node.js versions	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	30	0
fnm Fast Node.js version manager written in Rust	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Volta JavaScript tool manager pinned via package.json	Package & build	Version managers	Hold	Open source	50	10
pyenv Install and switch between Python versions	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	30	0
rbenv Lightweight Ruby version manager	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	30	0
rustup The Rust toolchain installer	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	60	10
SDKMAN! Manage parallel JDK and JVM tool versions	Package & build	Version managers	Adopt	Open source	40	10
proto Pluggable multi-language version manager	Package & build	Version managers	Trial	Open source	50	10
Vite Frontend dev server and build tool	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	80	10
esbuild Extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier	Package & build	Build tools	Trial	Open source	70	10
Rspack Rust bundler compatible with the webpack API	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Rolldown Rust bundler with a Rollup-compatible API	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	60	10
Turbopack Incremental Rust bundler built into Next.js	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	60	10
webpack Configurable module bundler for JavaScript	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	30	20
Rollup ES module bundler for libraries	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Parcel Zero-configuration web application bundler	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	60	10
SWC Rust compiler for JavaScript and TypeScript	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	50	10
tsdown Library bundler for TypeScript, powered by Rolldown	Package & build	Build tools	Trial	Open source	70	10
Bazel Hermetic, multi-language build system from Google	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	30	30
Buck2 Meta's fast multi-language build system	Package & build	Build tools	Trial	Open source	20	20
Pants Monorepo build system for Python, Go, JVM and more	Package & build	Build tools	Adopt	Open source	30	30
Earthly Containerized builds from Dockerfile-like Earthfiles	Package & build	Build tools	Hold	Open source	30	20
Dagger Programmable CI/CD pipelines that run in containers	Package & build	Build tools	Trial	Open source	40	50
Make The classic dependency-based build and task tool	Package & build	Task runners	Hold	Open source	20	0
Just A command runner with make-like recipes	Package & build	Task runners	Adopt	Open source	70	0
Task YAML-based task runner and build tool in Go	Package & build	Task runners	Adopt	Open source	60	0
Docker Engine The open-source Docker daemon and CLI for Linux	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Docker Desktop Docker Engine, Compose and Kubernetes in a desktop app	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	70	60
Podman Daemonless, rootless container engine	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	50	50
Podman Desktop Desktop app for Podman, Kubernetes and other engines	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	60	60
Rancher Desktop Desktop containers and k3s Kubernetes, free and open	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	60	60
OrbStack Fast, light Docker and Linux VMs for macOS	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	70	60
Colima Minimal container runtimes on macOS and Linux via Lima	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Trial	Open source	50	50
Lima Linux VMs with containerd for macOS and Linux	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	30	40
containerd Industry-standard container runtime daemon	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	30	30
nerdctl Docker-compatible CLI for containerd	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	30	50
Finch AWS's open-source client for container development	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Adopt	Open source	50	50
Apple container Run Linux containers as light VMs on Apple silicon	Containers & clusters	Container runtimes	Trial	Open source	20	20
Docker Compose Define and run multi-container apps from YAML	Containers & clusters	Compose	Adopt	Open source	60	60
Compose Watch File sync and rebuild-on-change for Docker Compose	Containers & clusters	Compose	Adopt	Open source	50	50
Podman Compose Run Compose files with Podman	Containers & clusters	Compose	Trial	Open source	30	50
Kompose Convert Compose files to Kubernetes manifests	Containers & clusters	Compose	Adopt	Open source	50	30
kind Kubernetes clusters in Docker containers	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Trial	Open source	50	50
k3d Run k3s clusters in Docker	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	60	50
k3s Lightweight certified Kubernetes distribution	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	50	60
minikube Local Kubernetes for learning and development	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	70	50
MicroK8s Canonical's low-ops Kubernetes with add-ons	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	40	70
k0s Single-binary, zero-dependency Kubernetes	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	50	60
vcluster Virtual Kubernetes clusters inside a host cluster	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Trial	Open source	30	70
Kubernetes Upstream container orchestration, as a reference point	Containers & clusters	Local Kubernetes	Adopt	Open source	30	90
BuildKit / buildx Docker's concurrent, cache-efficient image builder	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Adopt	Open source	40	30
Cloud Native Buildpacks Build OCI images from source without a Dockerfile	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Trial	Open source	40	30
ko Build Go container images without Docker	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Trial	Open source	60	30
Jib Daemonless container images for Java via Maven or Gradle	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Adopt	Open source	40	20
Kaniko Build images from a Dockerfile inside Kubernetes	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Hold	Open source	10	30
Buildah Build OCI images without a daemon	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Adopt	Open source	30	30
Nixpacks Build images from source using Nix packages	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Hold	Open source	30	20
Railpack Zero-config image builder on BuildKit, from Railway	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Trial	Open source	30	20
Depot Hosted remote BuildKit builders with shared cache	Containers & clusters	Image builders	Adopt	Paid	40	30
Portainer Web UI for Docker, Podman and Kubernetes	Containers & clusters	Container UIs	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	30
Lazydocker Terminal UI for Docker and Compose	Containers & clusters	Container UIs	Trial	Open source	60	20
Dive Explore image layers and find wasted space	Containers & clusters	Container UIs	Trial	Open source	60	20
Flisk Local dev loop for microservices and multi-agent stacks	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Assess	Open source	80	50
Tilt Live-update loop for multi-service apps	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Adopt	Open source	70	60
Skaffold Build, push and deploy loop for Kubernetes apps	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Garden Graph-based build, deploy and test for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Trial	Open source	40	70
DevSpace File sync and dev mode for Kubernetes workloads	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Trial	Open source	60	60
Okteto Dev environments and file sync on a Kubernetes cluster	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	70
Project Tye Experimental .NET multi-service runner	Inner loop	Live-update loops	Hold	Open source	30	20
Draft Generates Dockerfiles, manifests and pipelines for AKS	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Trial	Open source	40	20
werf Git-driven build and deploy CLI built on Helm	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	30	40
Helm Package manager and templating for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	30	30
Kustomize Template-free overlays for Kubernetes manifests	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	40	30
Timoni CUE-based package manager for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Trial	Open source	20	20
kapp Deploys a set of resources as one app with diffs	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	30	20
kubectl The official Kubernetes command-line client	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Helmfile Declarative spec for deploying many Helm releases	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	30	40
Tanka Jsonnet-based Kubernetes configuration tool	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	20	20
cdk8s Kubernetes manifests from TypeScript, Python, Go or Java	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	30	20
Krew Plugin manager for kubectl	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Trial	Open source	30	10
stern Tails logs from many pods and containers at once	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Adopt	Open source	50	10
kubectx Fast switching between kubectl contexts and namespaces	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Trial	Open source	40	10
kubie Per-shell Kubernetes context and namespace switching	Inner loop	Kubernetes dev	Trial	Open source	30	10
Telepresence Runs a local process as if it were inside the cluster	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Adopt	Open source	30	40
mirrord Mirrors cluster traffic, files and env into a local process	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Gefyra Runs local containers inside a Kubernetes network	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Trial	Open source	30	40
Signadot Request-routed sandboxes on a shared Kubernetes cluster	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	40	50
kubefwd Bulk port-forwards cluster services with local DNS names	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Adopt	Open source	30	20
Bridge to Kubernetes Retired VS Code bridge from Microsoft	Inner loop	Cluster bridges	Hold	Open source	20	20
k9s Terminal UI for navigating and managing clusters	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Adopt	Open source	60	10
Lens Desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	20
Headlamp Extensible web and desktop UI for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Adopt	Open source	50	10
Freelens Open source desktop UI forked from Lens	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Trial	Open source	40	20
Kubetail Real-time log viewer for Kubernetes in browser or terminal	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Trial	Open source	50	10
Aptakube Native desktop client for many clusters at once	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Trial	Paid	50	10
KDash Lightweight terminal dashboard for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Trial	Open source	50	10
Kubernetes Dashboard Retired official web UI for Kubernetes	Inner loop	Cluster UIs	Hold	Open source	10	10
PM2 Process manager for Node.js and other runtimes	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	70	10
process-compose Compose-style orchestration for plain processes	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	70	10
Overmind Procfile runner on tmux with per-process restart	Inner loop	Process runners	Hold	Open source	30	10
Foreman The original Procfile process runner	Inner loop	Process runners	Trial	Open source	40	10
Hivemind Minimal Procfile runner without tmux	Inner loop	Process runners	Hold	Open source	30	10
Honcho Python port of Foreman for Procfiles	Inner loop	Process runners	Hold	Open source	50	10
goreman Single-binary Foreman clone written in Go	Inner loop	Process runners	Trial	Open source	50	10
concurrently Runs several npm scripts or commands in one terminal	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	60	10
mprocs TUI that runs several commands side by side	Inner loop	Process runners	Trial	Open source	60	10
nodemon Restarts a Node.js process when files change	Inner loop	Process runners	Trial	Open source	60	0
Air Live reload for Go applications	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	60	0
watchexec Runs a command when files change, any language	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	60	0
bacon Background Rust checker that reruns on change	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	70	0
cargo-watch Archived cargo subcommand that reruns on change	Inner loop	Process runners	Hold	Open source	50	0
Watchman File watching service used by build tools	Inner loop	Process runners	Adopt	Open source	40	0
reflex Small Go tool that reruns commands on file change	Inner loop	Process runners	Trial	Open source	40	0
Nix Purely functional package manager and dev shells	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Adopt	Open source	20	10
devenv Nix-based dev environments with services and processes	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Devbox Isolated shells from Nix packages without writing Nix	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Trial	Open source	50	30
Flox Nix-backed environments you can share and layer	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Trial	Open source	50	30
direnv Loads and unloads env vars per directory	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Distrobox Any Linux distro in a container, integrated with the host	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Trial	Open source	40	10
Toolbx Container-based mutable shells for Fedora and RHEL	Dev environments	Reproducible shells	Trial	Open source	30	10
Dev Containers Open spec and CLI for container-based dev environments	Dev environments	Dev containers	Adopt	Open source	50	30
DevPod Client-only dev containers on any backend	Dev environments	Dev containers	Hold	Open source	50	40
Vagrant Reproducible VM-based dev environments	Dev environments	Dev containers	Trial	Free, closed source	40	30
GitHub Codespaces Hosted dev containers attached to GitHub repos	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	50
Ona Cloud environments and AI agents, formerly Gitpod	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	60	50
Coder Self-hosted remote workspaces defined in Terraform	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Open source	40	40
Eclipse Che Kubernetes-native browser IDE workspaces	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Open source	30	40
code-server VS Code in the browser on any machine you run	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Open source	60	0
Daytona Former dev-environment manager, now AI code sandboxes	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Hold	Open source	40	10
CodeSandbox Browser sandboxes and microVM dev environments	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	50	10
StackBlitz Node.js dev environments running in the browser tab	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	0
Replit Hosted IDE with built-in hosting and an AI agent	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	20
Google Cloud Workstations Managed dev environments inside your Google Cloud project	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Adopt	Paid	30	30
Firebase Studio Sunsetting browser workspace from Google, formerly IDX	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Hold	Free, closed source	30	10
AWS Cloud9 Browser IDE on EC2, closed to new customers	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Hold	Paid	20	10
Microsoft Dev Box Cloud Windows workstations for developers	Dev environments	Cloud workspaces	Hold	Paid	20	20
DDEV Docker-based local stacks for PHP and Node projects	Dev environments	Local stacks	Adopt	Open source	60	40
Lando Recipe-based Docker dev environments	Dev environments	Local stacks	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Laravel Sail Docker Compose setup for Laravel apps	Dev environments	Local stacks	Adopt	Open source	50	30
Laravel Herd Native PHP and Node dev environment for Laravel	Dev environments	Local stacks	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	10
Local Desktop app for local WordPress sites	Dev environments	Local stacks	Adopt	Free, closed source	60	10
Docksal Docker-based stacks for Drupal and PHP	Dev environments	Local stacks	Hold	Open source	40	40
Nx Monorepo build system with task graph and caching	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Turborepo Task runner and cache for JavaScript monorepos	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	90	20
Lerna Versioning and publishing for JavaScript monorepos	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	50	10
Rush Microsoft's monorepo manager for large JS repos	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	40	10
moon Rust monorepo task runner with toolchain management	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Lage Task runner for JS monorepos from Microsoft	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Changesets Versioning and changelogs for multi-package repos	Monorepos & frameworks	Monorepo tools	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Aspire Code-first app host with dashboard for distributed apps	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	70
Encore Backend framework that provisions infra from code	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	80	50
Dapr Sidecar runtime APIs for distributed applications	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	90
Wasp Full-stack React and Node framework with a DSL	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Trial	Open source	60	20
RedwoodJS Full-stack React, GraphQL and Prisma framework	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Trial	Open source	50	10
Nitric Cloud framework with infrastructure inferred from code	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Trial	Open source	70	30
Quarkus Java framework with dev mode, Dev UI and Dev Services	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	80	50
Spring Boot Java framework with Compose support and devtools	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	60
Micronaut JVM framework with Test Resources for local deps	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Ruby on Rails Full-stack Ruby web framework	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	70	40
Laravel PHP web framework with Sail for local Docker	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	80	30
Django Batteries-included Python web framework	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	70	10
Next.js React framework for full-stack web apps	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	80	0
React Router React framework mode, successor to Remix	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	70	0
Astro Content-first web framework with islands	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	90	0
NestJS Structured Node.js framework for server apps	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Hono Small web framework for any JavaScript runtime	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	0
FastAPI Python API framework with type-driven validation	Monorepos & frameworks	App frameworks	Adopt	Open source	70	0
SST Infra-as-code framework with live AWS dev mode	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	50
Serverless Framework Deploy and develop AWS Lambda apps from YAML	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	30
AWS SAM AWS CLI to build and run Lambda apps locally	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	30
Architect Serverless AWS apps with a local sandbox	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Trial	Open source	70	20
Wrangler Cloudflare Workers CLI with local workerd dev	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Open source	70	30
Vercel CLI Deploy and emulate Vercel projects locally	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	30	30
Netlify CLI Run Netlify sites and functions locally	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	20
Azure Functions Core Tools Run and debug Azure Functions locally	Monorepos & frameworks	Serverless frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	20
create-t3-app Scaffold a typesafe Next.js, tRPC and Prisma app	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Trial	Open source	50	0
create-vite Official Vite project templates	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Adopt	Open source	60	0
Yeoman Generator ecosystem for scaffolding projects	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Adopt	Open source	40	0
JHipster Generate Spring Boot apps with Angular, React or Vue	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Adopt	Open source	40	60
Cookiecutter Project templates from Jinja-templated directories	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Trial	Open source	40	0
Copier Project templates that can update generated projects	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Adopt	Open source	40	0
Plop Micro-generator for files inside an existing repo	Monorepos & frameworks	Scaffolders	Trial	Open source	50	0
LocalStack Local AWS cloud emulator in a container	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	30
Moto Mock AWS services for Python tests or as a server	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Open source	50	10
MinIO S3-compatible object storage server	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Hold	Open source	60	20
Azurite Local emulator for Azure Blob, Queue and Table storage	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Open source	60	20
Firebase Emulator Suite Local Firestore, Auth, Functions and more with a UI	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Open source	70	30
Google Cloud emulators gcloud emulators for Pub/Sub, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Free, closed source	40	10
Miniflare Local simulator for Cloudflare Workers on workerd	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Open source	60	30
fake-gcs-server Emulator for the Google Cloud Storage API	Local services & data	Cloud emulators	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Supabase CLI Run the full Supabase stack locally in Docker	Local services & data	Local backends	Adopt	Open source	60	40
Appwrite Self-hostable backend with auth, DB, storage, functions	Local services & data	Local backends	Adopt	Open source	60	40
PocketBase Backend in one Go binary with SQLite and admin UI	Local services & data	Local backends	Trial	Open source	70	10
Convex Reactive TypeScript backend with a local dev server	Local services & data	Local backends	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	70	10
Nhost Postgres, Hasura GraphQL, auth and storage stack	Local services & data	Local backends	Adopt	Open source	50	40
Neon Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branches	Local services & data	Local backends	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	10
WireMock HTTP API mock server with stubbing and recording	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Trial	Open source	50	0
Mockoon Desktop app and CLI for local mock APIs	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Open source	70	0
Prism Mock server and validator from OpenAPI documents	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Open source	70	0
Mock Service Worker API mocking by intercepting requests in browser and Node	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Open source	40	0
Mailpit SMTP catcher with web UI and API for testing email	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Open source	80	0
MailHog SMTP testing server with web UI	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Hold	Open source	60	0
ngrok Public HTTPS tunnels to local services	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	10
Cloudflare Tunnel Expose local services through Cloudflare via cloudflared	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	10
localtunnel Expose localhost through a public URL	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Hold	Open source	40	10
Tailscale Funnel Share a local port to the internet over Tailscale	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	10
Microcks Mocks and contract tests from OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, gRPC	Local services & data	Mocks and tunnels	Adopt	Open source	60	20
Testcontainers Throwaway Docker dependencies from test code	Local services & data	Test dependencies	Adopt	Open source	40	50
Toxiproxy TCP proxy that injects latency and network faults	Local services & data	Test dependencies	Adopt	Open source	50	10
Pact Consumer-driven contract testing between services	Local services & data	Test dependencies	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Prisma TypeScript ORM with schema migrations and Studio	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Drizzle ORM SQL-like TypeScript ORM with drizzle-kit migrations	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	60	20
Atlas Declarative schema-as-code migrations with linting	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	30
dbmate Language-agnostic SQL migration tool	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	60	20
Flyway Versioned SQL migrations for many databases	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	30
Liquibase Database change management with changelogs	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	30
golang-migrate Database migrations CLI and Go library	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Sqitch Dependency-based database change management	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	30	20
Alembic Migrations for SQLAlchemy	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Kysely Type-safe TypeScript SQL query builder	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	50	10
TypeORM Decorator-based ORM for TypeScript	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	30	20
Sequelize Promise-based ORM for Node.js	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	30	20
SQLAlchemy Python SQL toolkit and ORM	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Entity Framework Core .NET ORM with code-first migrations	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	40	20
sqlc Generate type-safe code from SQL queries	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	60	0
MikroORM TypeScript ORM with unit of work and migrations	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Adopt	Open source	30	20
SQLx Async Rust SQL toolkit with compile-time checked queries	Local services & data	ORMs and migrations	Trial	Open source	40	20
LangGraph Stateful graphs for LLM agents	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	20
LangChain Model, tool and retriever building blocks for LLM apps	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	0
CrewAI Role-based multi-agent crews and flows in Python	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	0
AutoGen Microsoft's multi-agent conversation framework	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Hold	Open source	40	10
AG2 Community fork of AutoGen 0.2 for multi-agent apps	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Microsoft Agent Framework Successor to Semantic Kernel and AutoGen for .NET and Python	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Semantic Kernel Microsoft SDK for AI plugins in C#, Python and Java	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	10
Mastra TypeScript framework for agents, workflows and RAG	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	90	20
OpenAI Agents SDK Lightweight agents, handoffs and guardrails from OpenAI	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Trial	Open source	40	10
Claude Agent SDK The Claude Code agent loop as a library	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Trial	Open source	50	0
Google ADK Google's Agent Development Kit for Python, Java, Go and TS	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Pydantic AI Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	10
LlamaIndex Data and retrieval framework for LLM agents	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Trial	Open source	30	10
Haystack Pipelines for RAG and agents from deepset	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	20
DSPy Program and optimize LM pipelines instead of prompting	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	40	0
Vercel AI SDK TypeScript toolkit for LLM apps, streaming UI and agents	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	10
smolagents Hugging Face's minimal code-writing agents	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	10
Agno Python agents and teams with a runtime and control plane	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	50	20
Letta Stateful agents with long-term memory, formerly MemGPT	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Trial	Open source	50	20
Temporal Durable execution for long-running agent workflows	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	70
Inngest Durable steps, queues and AgentKit for serverless code	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	80	20
Restate Durable execution engine for agents and services	AI & agents	Agent frameworks	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Model Context Protocol Open protocol and SDKs connecting agents to tools and data	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Adopt	Open source	50	0
MCP Inspector Visual test and debug tool for MCP servers	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Adopt	Open source	90	0
Docker MCP Toolkit Run catalog MCP servers as containers behind one gateway	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	50	30
Smithery Registry and hosting for MCP servers	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Hold	Free tier, paid plans	40	0
MCP Registry Official community registry of public MCP servers	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Trial	Open source	20	0
FastMCP Pythonic framework for MCP servers and clients	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Adopt	Open source	80	0
Composio Hosted tool integrations and auth for agents	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	40	10
skills.sh Directory and CLI for installing agent skills	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Assess	Open source	50	0
Stagehand Browser automation SDK for agents, by Browserbase	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Adopt	Open source	50	0
Playwright MCP MCP server that drives a browser through Playwright	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Trial	Open source	60	0
E2B Cloud sandboxes for running agent-generated code	AI & agents	Agent tools and MCP	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	20
Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal and IDEs	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Paid	90	0
Codex OpenAI's coding agent for terminal, IDE and cloud	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Open source	80	0
Cursor AI-first code editor forked from VS Code	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	0
Gemini CLI Google's open-source terminal agent for Gemini	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Open source	80	0
GitHub Copilot GitHub's AI pair programmer, agent mode and cloud agent	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	0
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	60	0
Cline Open-source coding agent for VS Code and the terminal	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Open source	70	0
Roo Code VS Code agent forked from Cline, now discontinued	AI & agents	Coding agents	Hold	Open source	50	0
Aider Git-aware AI pair programming in the terminal	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Open source	60	0
Continue Open-source IDE agent and CI checks with any model	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Open source	60	0
Zed Fast Rust editor with built-in agent panel and ACP	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Open source	80	0
Warp Agentic terminal and development environment	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	0
Amp Coding agent for terminal and editors, from Sourcegraph	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	50	0
OpenCode Open-source terminal coding agent for any model	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Open source	90	0
goose Local, extensible open-source AI agent built on MCP	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Open source	60	0
Kiro AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE and CLI	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	50	0
Jules Google's asynchronous cloud coding agent	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	30	10
Devin Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer	AI & agents	Coding agents	Adopt	Paid	40	20
Paradev (formerly Superset) Desktop app to run many coding agents in parallel worktrees	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free tier, paid plans	40	0
Conductor Mac app to run parallel Claude Code and Codex agents	AI & agents	Coding agents	Trial	Free, closed source	40	0
Ollama Run open models locally behind a simple API	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Open source	70	10
LM Studio Desktop app to download and serve local models	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Free, closed source	70	0
llama.cpp C/C++ inference for GGUF models on CPU and GPU	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Open source	50	10
vLLM High-throughput LLM serving engine	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Open source	30	40
LocalAI Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API for many model types	AI & agents	Local models	Adopt	Open source	60	20
Docker Model Runner Pull and run models as OCI artifacts with Docker	AI & agents	Local models	Adopt	Open source	60	30
Jan Open-source desktop ChatGPT alternative that runs offline	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Open source	70	0
MLX LM Run and fine-tune LLMs on Apple silicon with MLX	AI & agents	Local models	Trial	Open source	40	0
Langfuse Open-source LLM tracing, evals and prompt management	AI & agents	LLM observability	Adopt	Open source	60	60
LangSmith LangChain's tracing, evals and deployment platform	AI & agents	LLM observability	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	20
Arize Phoenix Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation on OpenTelemetry	AI & agents	LLM observability	Adopt	Open source	80	30
Helicone Proxy-based LLM logging and AI gateway	AI & agents	LLM observability	Hold	Open source	30	10
OpenLLMetry OpenTelemetry instrumentation for LLM libraries	AI & agents	LLM observability	Trial	Open source	50	10
Braintrust Evals, logging and prompt playground for AI products	AI & agents	LLM observability	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	20
promptfoo CLI for LLM evals and red teaming in CI	AI & agents	LLM observability	Trial	Open source	70	0
Opik Open-source LLM tracing and evals from Comet	AI & agents	LLM observability	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Terraform HashiCorp's declarative infrastructure as code in HCL	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	50
OpenTofu Open-source Terraform fork under the Linux Foundation	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Pulumi Infrastructure as code in TypeScript, Python, Go and .NET	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	50	60
AWS CDK AWS infrastructure in code, synthesized to CloudFormation	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	30	50
AWS CloudFormation AWS's native declarative infrastructure templates	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Free, closed source	30	40
Bicep Microsoft's declarative language for Azure resources	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Trial	Open source	40	30
Crossplane Kubernetes control plane for cloud infrastructure	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	30	60
Terragrunt Orchestration wrapper for Terraform and OpenTofu stacks	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	40	40
Ansible Agentless configuration management over SSH	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Adopt	Open source	30	60
CDK for Terraform Terraform in general-purpose languages, now deprecated	Platform	Infrastructure as code	Hold	Open source	30	20
Backstage Open-source developer portal framework by Spotify	Platform	Developer portals	Adopt	Open source	40	20
Port Hosted internal developer portal with a flexible data model	Platform	Developer portals	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	20
Cortex Hosted portal focused on service scorecards and ownership	Platform	Developer portals	Adopt	Paid	30	10
OpsLevel Hosted service catalog with maturity checks	Platform	Developer portals	Adopt	Paid	40	10
Humanitec Platform Orchestrator that wires workloads to infrastructure	Platform	Developer portals	Trial	Paid	40	50
Kratix Kubernetes framework for building platform APIs, by Syntasso	Platform	Developer portals	Trial	Open source	10	40
Roadie Managed, hosted Backstage	Platform	Developer portals	Adopt	Paid	30	20
GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows built into GitHub	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	60
GitLab CI/CD Pipelines built into GitLab, hosted or self-managed	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	70
Jenkins Long-standing self-hosted automation server	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Open source	40	60
CircleCI Hosted CI/CD with Docker, machine and macOS executors	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	50
Buildkite Hosted CI control plane with agents on your own machines	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	40	60
act Run GitHub Actions workflows locally in Docker	Platform	CI/CD	Trial	Open source	50	20
Tekton Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipeline building blocks	Platform	CI/CD	Adopt	Open source	10	70
Argo CD Declarative GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes	Platform	GitOps	Adopt	Open source	30	70
Flux CNCF GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes	Platform	GitOps	Adopt	Open source	30	70
Kargo Promote changes across environments on top of Argo CD	Platform	GitOps	Adopt	Open source	30	50
OpenTelemetry Vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs and Collector for telemetry	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Open source	40	50
Grafana Dashboards over metrics, logs and traces	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Open source	70	40
Prometheus CNCF metrics database and alerting	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Jaeger CNCF distributed tracing backend and UI	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Open source	70	30
grafana/otel-lgtm OTel Collector, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Mimir in one image	Platform	Observability	Trial	Open source	70	20
SigNoz OpenTelemetry-native logs, metrics and traces in one app	Platform	Observability	Trial	Open source	50	50
Sentry Error tracking and performance monitoring	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	20
Grafana Loki Label-indexed log aggregation from Grafana Labs	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Open source	30	50
Datadog Hosted monitoring, APM and logs platform	Platform	Observability	Adopt	Paid	50	50
HashiCorp Vault Secrets storage, dynamic credentials and encryption	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	50
OpenBao Open-source Vault fork under the Linux Foundation	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	60	50
Doppler Hosted secrets manager that injects env vars	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	60	40
Infisical Open-source secrets manager and PKI	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Trial	Open source	50	50
1Password CLI Inject secrets from 1Password vaults into commands and env	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Paid	40	20
SOPS Encrypt values in YAML, JSON and env files with KMS or age	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	40	30
External Secrets Operator Sync secrets from external managers into Kubernetes	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	10	40
Renovate Automated dependency update pull requests	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	20	20
Dependabot GitHub's built-in dependency and security updates	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Free, closed source	20	20
Trivy Scanner for vulnerabilities, misconfigs and secrets	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Trial	Open source	60	30
Syft Generate SBOMs from images and filesystems, by Anchore	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	70	20
Grype Vulnerability scanner for images and SBOMs, by Anchore	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Trial	Open source	60	20
Cosign Sign and verify container images, part of Sigstore	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Open source	30	30
Gitleaks Find committed secrets in git history	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Trial	Open source	60	0
Snyk Hosted scanning for dependencies, code, containers and IaC	Platform	Secrets and supply chain	Adopt	Free tier, paid plans	50	40