Alternatives to deno
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. deno itself: install deno.
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
sherif
Opinionated, zero-config linter for TypeScript & JavaScript monorepos
eslint
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires
chakra
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
highway
Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch
autorest
OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, PowerShell, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
Phoenix
A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
json2ts
Compile JSON Schema to TypeScript type declarations
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
procyon-decompiler
Procyon is a suite of Java metaprogramming tools, including a rich reflection API, a LINQ-inspired expression tree API for runtime code generation, an
llnode
An lldb plugin for Node.js and V8, which enables inspection of JavaScript states for insights into Node.js processes and their core dumps
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than deno — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
deno is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.