Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Modguard
A lightweight python tool for enforcing modular design
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Modguard launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! We are excited to show you modguard - a Python tool we built to enforce a modular, decoupled package architecture. We built modguard to solve a recurring problem that we've experienced on software teams - code sprawl. Over time, cross-module imports would tightly couple together what used to be independent domains, and eventually create "balls of mud". This made it harder to test, and harder to make changes. Mis-use of modules which were intended to be private would then degrade performance and even cause security incidents. This would happen for a variety of reasons: - Junior…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tach is a pip package that lets you define module boundaries, automatically detect all cross-module dependencies, and then validate and enforce those dependencies. It also supports strict interfaces for modules by overloading `__all__`. The core static analysis is done in Rust, so all Tach commands run quickly. The goal of Tach is to help eng teams maintain velocity while scaling quickly, something we've seen break down a number of times. Give it a try!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I kept seeing every npm/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv supply chain post end with the same advice (set a minimum release age, turn off install scripts), and while I know cooldowns are "controversial", they do work. But even if you convince people that they should set cooldowns, it seems many don't end up following through, not sure why, maybe because it means hand-editing five config files in five formats with five different time units, or perhaps the "it won't happen to me" syndrome (or "I'll do it later, it seems complicated" where it's actually very simple). So I created a tool that…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · breach.cc · its alternatives →
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Host private Python, Docker, NPM, Debian, and Conda packages. Private package registry with 4.5x faster installs, CVE scanning, and SSO. Up to 80% cheaper than Cloudsmith. Free tier available.
2019 · packagr.app · its alternatives →
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Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit written primarily in Rust, with API support for multiple programming languages such as C++ and JavaScript. It is designed for desktop and embedded usage. The Slint website has just been redesigned. And we added a new Royalty-Free License option besides GPL and commercial
2023 · slint.dev · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitGuardian▲132Detect secrets in source code, public and private!
2018 · gitguardian.com · its alternatives →
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A high performance & cross-platform layout engine
2019 · vislyhq.github.io · its alternatives →
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I've invented a new alternative to forking / vendoring / monkey-patching packages in Python. It's a bit like OverlayFS for Python modules - it allows you write modifications for a target module (lower) in a new module (upper), and have these combined in a new virtual module (mount). It works by rewriting imports using AST transformations, then running both the lower and upper module's code in the new Python module. This prevents polluting the global namespace when monkey-patching, and means if you want to make changes to a third-party package, you don't have to take on the…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · defguard.net · its alternatives →
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PyTermGUI is a highly modular framework offering most of the features one would expect from a GUI library, such as a mature and open Widget API, animations, mouse support and other goodies, right inside the terminal! The markup language is another great feature of the library, and is used by practically all elements of it. It is based on Rich's implementation, but uses a more concise and easier to humanly parse syntax, while being over 10 times faster at parsing due to a long list of optimizations. There is a full Window Manager API included as well, allowing the user to move, resize and…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open sourced application to detect security vulnerabilities.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Host private Python, Docker, NPM, Debian, and Conda packages. Private package registry with 4.5x faster installs, CVE scanning, and SSO. Up to 80% cheaper than Cloudsmith. Free tier available.
2020 · packagr.app · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A purely functional library to build distributed and event-driven systems
2019 · parapet.io · its alternatives →
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Greetings! A 2.5 weekends project to teach myself newer Python features (>= 3.10). Conditions are written as Lambda expressions that annotate parameters and return types, and coexist with type annotations. Symbols to share values between conditions are also supported to a limited extend.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zero-Trust access management with true WireGuard® 2FA/MFA - DefGuard/defguard
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI writes code. ScopeGuard keeps it aligned.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Identify and remediate code security and privacy risks in your DevSecOps workflows.
2018 · bearer.sh · its alternatives →
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I wanted a safer alternative to RegExp for TypeScript that uses a linear-time engine, so I built Regolith. Why: Many CVEs happen because TypeScript libraries are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service attacks. I learned about this problem while doing undergraduate research and found that languages like Rust have built-in protection but languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python do not. This library attempts to mitigate these vulnerabilities for TypeScript and JavaScript. How: Regolith uses Rust's Regex library under the hood to prevent ReDoS attacks. The Rust Regex library…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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