Alternatives to lefthook
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. lefthook itself: install lefthook.
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
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
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
pyright
Static Type Checker for Python
Reactotron
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
bubblewrap
Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
gopass
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
cargo-flamegraph
Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3
Phoenix
A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
jet
Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping
limine
Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager
overmind
Process manager for Procfile-based applications and tmux
json2ts
Compile JSON Schema to TypeScript type declarations
typeshare
Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI
Razer macOS
Color effects manager for Razer devices for macOS. Supports High Sierra (10.13) to Monterey (12.0). Made by the community, based on openrazer
kondo
Cleans dependencies and build artifacts from your projects
entityx
EntityX - A fast, type-safe C++ Entity-Component system
sleek
todo.txt manager for Linux, Windows and Mac, free and open-source (FOSS)
dotter
A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀
ccm
Apache Cassandra® Cluster Manager (CCM) – easily create and destroy clusters on localhost
postgresql-hll
PostgreSQL extension adding HyperLogLog data structures as a native data type
counterfeiter
A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go
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 lefthook — 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.
lefthook 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.