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Commerce · October 15, 2023

Zap – another JavaScript package manager

Hey! Zap is another package manager for the JavasScript ecosystem, written in Crystal and I have been working on this side project of mine for a year or so on-and-off. It aims to be fast but also: - flexible: configurable and supports advanced features like multiple install strategies, overrides, package extensions, workspaces, private registries… - reliable: multiple anti-corruption checks, store is flocked and supports multiple processes reading/writing to it… - dev friendly: tries to be sensible about the ouput and still display all the info needed There is still much work to do…

Zap – another JavaScript package manager launched on October 15, 2023 with 5 votes, #1,683 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Another [insert blazing fast synonym] JavaScript package manager - GitHub - elbywan/zap: Another [insert blazing fast synonym] JavaScript package manager

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey! Zap is another package manager for the JavasScript ecosystem, written in Crystal and I have been working on this side project of mine for a year or so on-and-off. It aims to be fast but also: - flexible: configurable and supports advanced features like multiple install strategies, overrides, package extensions…

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