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24 alternatives to New Patch, Merge?
Build amazing things - Package manager for JavaScript
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. New Patch, Merge? launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Help Me Build▲107Discover high quality tools to build awesome things
2015 · led24.tv · its alternatives →
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Reapp▲89A new way to build hybrid apps with React, Webpack, and JS.
2015 · reapp.io · its alternatives →
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No-fluff guide to building a collaborative development team
2016 · zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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Buildkite▲74Great continuous integration for software development teams
2015 · buildkite.com · its alternatives →
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Turn GitHub into a project management suite! Plus, socks
2015 · app.zenhub.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intuitive to me and I wanted something with more approachable tooling (although this was circa 2016, so I'm sure Nix has improved a lot since then too-- that was before Flakes were around!) Anyway, I started on the current iteration of Brioche about 6 months ago, and I finally cut an initial release. I'd still consider this a "technical preview" version (performance especially is pretty painful, so that'll be a focus…
2024 · brioche.dev · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Learn about an amazing JavaScript bundler called webpack.
2016 · javascriptair.com · its alternatives →
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Because they AAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHH
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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What you can do to improve your workspace and community
2016 · javascriptair.com · its alternatives →
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Our top five ES6/7/2015/2016 upgrades!
2016 · marcoroth.dev · its alternatives →
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James Studdart of CynicalDeveloper
2017 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · embed.plnkr.co · its alternatives →
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