Open-source build-tool software
1117 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged build-tool, ranked by how closely build-tool is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1117 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| emezeske/lein-cljsbuild lein-cljsbuild is a Leiningen plugin that simplifies ClojureScript development by automatically compiling ClojureScript code to JavaScript.… | 23 | 1093 | maintenance |
| Fabricator Fabricator is a Node.js tool for building website UI toolkits and generating style guides from component code. It uses Gulp, Handlebars, an… | 10 | 1090 | maintenance |
| sapegin/grunt-webfont A Grunt plugin that converts SVG icon files into webfonts in all major formats (WOFF, WOFF2, EOT, TTF, SVG), along with generated CSS/Sass/… | 10 | 1089 | maintenance |
| choojs/bankai Bankai is a zero-configuration web compiler CLI that bundles JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with a built-in development server supporting HTTPS… | 23 | 1085 | maintenance |
| react-native-community/jsc-android-buildscripts Build scripts for compiling the JavaScriptCore (JSC) JavaScript engine for Android, distributed as the jsc-android npm package. It was crea… | 50 | 1072 | maintenance |
| CocoaPods/cocoapods-deintegrate A CocoaPods plugin that removes all traces of CocoaPods integration from an Xcode project, deleting build phases, library references, xccon… | 23 | 1072 | maintenance |
| MeetYouDevs/cocoapods-imy-bin A CocoaPods plugin that speeds up iOS builds by 10x or more by compiling dependencies into prebuilt binary frameworks instead of source. It… | 59 | 1067 | maintenance |
| wking-io/elm-live elm-live is a flexible development server for the Elm programming language that wraps elm make and serves your app with automatic live relo… | 23 | 1067 | maintenance |
| wesleytodd/YeoPress YeoPress is a Yeoman generator that scaffolds WordPress projects, handling installation, directory setup, Git submodule management, databas… | 10 | 1059 | maintenance |
| harrysolovay/rescripts Rescripts lets developers customize Create React App's internal configurations (Babel, ESLint, Webpack, etc.) without ejecting or forking r… | 10 | 1057 | maintenance |
| HypriotOS A build pipeline that produces HypriotOS SD card images for Raspberry Pi 1, 2, 3, 4, and Zero — a minimal Debian-based OS optimized to run … | 10 | 1056 | maintenance |
| lhelontra/tensorflow-on-arm A set of shell scripts and Docker-based build tooling for cross-compiling TensorFlow wheels for ARM boards like Raspberry Pi and Odroid. It… | 23 | 1052 | maintenance |
| Digistump Arduino Board Support Package Arduino board support package adding Digistump hardware support (Digispark, Digispark Pro, DigiX) to Arduino IDE 1.6.5+. It provides board … | 23 | 1050 | maintenance |
| simpligility/android-maven-plugin A Maven plugin for building Android applications and libraries (AAR/APKLIB) with Apache Maven. It handles APK packaging, signing, ProGuard,… | 32 | 1045 | maintenance |
| jayrambhia/Install-OpenCV A collection of shell scripts that automate installing various versions of OpenCV on different Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, RedHat, … | 32 | 1044 | maintenance |
| malware-dev/MDK-SE Malware's Development Kit (MDK-SE) is a C# development kit for writing in-game scripts for the Space Engineers programmable block, providin… | 10 | 1042 | maintenance |
| egoist/bili Bili is a zero-config bundler for JavaScript libraries, built on top of Rollup. It automatically handles transforms with Buble, Babel, or T… | 23 | 1030 | maintenance |
| shakacode/bootstrap-loader A Webpack loader that loads Bootstrap styles and scripts into a Webpack bundle, supporting Bootstrap 3 and 4 with configurable styles, scri… | 60 | 1019 | maintenance |
| egoist/esbuild-register A Node.js library that registers a require hook to transpile TypeScript, JSX, and ESNext features on the fly using esbuild. It reads jsxFac… | 23 | 1011 | maintenance |
| yassinebenaid/bunster Bunster is a shell compiler that transpiles shell scripts (aiming for bash compatibility) into Go code and compiles them into standalone, s… | 58 | 2679 | experimental |
| sokra/rawact A Babel plugin that compiles React.js components into native DOM instructions, eliminating the need for the react and react-dom libraries a… | 32 | 2506 | experimental |
| suptejas/fleet Fleet is a blazing fast build tool for Rust that claims up to 5x faster compilation than cargo. It works by integrating existing Rust ecosy… | 64 | 2423 | experimental |
| ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig MicroZig is a toolbox and framework for building embedded applications in Zig, extending the Zig build system to target specific microcontr… | 98 | 2291 | experimental |
| windows-drivers-rs A collection of Rust crates from Microsoft that enable developing Windows drivers (WDM, KMDF, UMDF) in Rust. It provides build tooling, FFI… | 78 | 1934 | experimental |
| wdjungst/react-project A React.js framework distributed as a dependency (not a boilerplate) that bundles React Router, Babel, Webpack, Express server-side renderi… | 32 | 1806 | experimental |
| zeldaret/mm A work-in-progress from-scratch decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64 US 1.0), recreating readable C source code that bu… | 77 | 1754 | experimental |
| rust-osdev/bootloader An experimental x86_64 bootloader written in pure Rust that works on both BIOS and UEFI systems. It lets OS developers package their Rust k… | 87 | 1695 | experimental |
| Robot-Will/Stino Stino is a Sublime Text plugin that provides an Arduino-like environment for editing, compiling, and uploading Arduino sketches. It downloa… | 32 | 1568 | experimental |
| pintariching/rustle Rustle is a Svelte-like compiler written in Rust, aiming to reimplement the Svelte component compiler. It is a work-in-progress project dis… | 10 | 1340 | experimental |
| microsoft/winappCli The Windows App Development CLI (winapp) is a single command-line tool from Microsoft for managing Windows SDKs, MSIX packaging, app identi… | 85 | 1327 | experimental |
| tgfrerer/island Project Island is an experimental Vulkan renderer and engine framework for Linux and Windows, written in C/C++, designed for rapid prototyp… | 67 | 1289 | experimental |
| nix-community/dream2nix dream2nix is a modular Nix framework that automates reproducible packaging of projects from various programming language ecosystems (e.g. N… | 73 | 1269 | experimental |
| joelseverin/linux-wasm A set of scripts and patches that build a Linux kernel with a WebAssembly architecture port, runnable in the browser. It combines LLVM tool… | 51 | 1248 | experimental |
| rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc A GCC-based codegen backend for rustc that uses libgccjit for ahead-of-time compilation of Rust code. It allows compiling Rust on platforms… | 77 | 1181 | experimental |
| tokencss/tokencss Token CSS is a PostCSS-based tool that integrates the Design Tokens format into CSS workflows, converting token names in .css and <style> b… | 23 | 1112 | experimental |
| react/create-react-app Create React App is a CLI scaffolding tool that bootstraps a modern single-page React application with a single command (npx create-react-a… | 23 | 103249 | abandoned |
| pkg pkg is a command‑line utility that bundles a Node.js project into a single executable binary. It enables distribution of Node applications … | 10 | 24330 | abandoned |
| pkg A command-line tool that packages Node.js projects into standalone executables that run without Node.js installed, supporting cross-compila… | 10 | 24330 | abandoned |
| Tencent/wepy WePY is a component-based development framework for WeChat Mini Programs that enables Vue-like development style through pre-compilation. I… | 10 | 22538 | abandoned |
| Snowpack Snowpack is an ESM-powered frontend build tool offering an unbundled development server with instant startup and hot module replacement. It… | 23 | 19278 | abandoned |
| GoogleContainerTools/kaniko Kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster without depending on a Docker daemon.… | 10 | 15758 | abandoned |
| google/wire Wire is a compile-time dependency injection code generation tool for Go. It generates initialization code from provider functions without r… | 10 | 14387 | abandoned |
| facebookarchive/prepack Prepack is a partial evaluator for JavaScript that rewrites bundles by executing computations at compile time and replacing global code wit… | 10 | 14097 | abandoned |
| ConsenSys-archive/truffle Truffle is a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum smart contract development, providing compilation,… | 10 | 13904 | abandoned |
| chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin A webpack plugin that prerenders static HTML for single-page applications using Puppeteer, making SPAs crawlable and SEO-friendly. It is fr… | 10 | 7262 | abandoned |
| Brunch Brunch is a fast front-end web application build tool with simple declarative configuration and incremental compilation, active since 2011.… | 54 | 6759 | abandoned |
| Compass Compass is a Sass-based CSS authoring framework that provides mixins, reusable patterns, and a command-line compiler/watcher for generating… | 32 | 6650 | abandoned |
| Docker Cloud The former unified source repository for Docker Community Edition (Docker Engine and Docker CLI), which assembled upstream components like … | 10 | 5737 | abandoned |
| insin/nwb nwb is a zero-configuration build toolkit for React, Preact, Inferno, and vanilla JS web apps and npm modules, bundling Webpack, Babel, and… | 10 | 5528 | abandoned |
| tools/godep Godep is a Go dependency management CLI tool that fixes dependencies to enable reproducible builds by saving a dependency list and vendorin… | 10 | 5508 | abandoned |
| alibaba/freeline Freeline is a fast incremental build tool for Android apps, serving as an alternative to Instant Run. It caches reusable class files and re… | 23 | 5435 | abandoned |
| rails/webpacker Webpacker is a Ruby gem that integrates Webpack with Ruby on Rails applications to manage app-like JavaScript modules. It has been official… | 32 | 5270 | abandoned |
| MoOx/postcss-cssnext postcss-cssnext is a PostCSS plugin that lets developers use tomorrow's CSS syntax today by transforming modern CSS specs into more compati… | 10 | 5255 | abandoned |
| GoogleChromeLabs/sw-precache A deprecated Node.js module that generates service worker code to precache static web app resources for offline use, integrating with build… | 10 | 5181 | abandoned |
| holoiso-eol/holoiso HoloISO is an unofficial, installable rebuild of Valve's SteamOS 3 (Holo), packaged as an archiso configuration that produces a bootable in… | 10 | 5173 | abandoned |
| egoist/poi Poi is a zero-config JavaScript application bundler built on top of webpack, designed to make developing and bundling web apps and npm libr… | 10 | 5161 | abandoned |
| preactjs/wmr WMR is a tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps, packaged as a single 2MB dependency-free file. It provides a zero-config dev… | 23 | 4914 | abandoned |
| Packer (Android渠道打包工具) A Gradle plugin for ultra-fast Android multi-channel APK packaging, embedding channel info into APKs signed with APK Signature Scheme v2 so… | 10 | 4789 | abandoned |
| transitive-bullshit/create-react-library A CLI tool for scaffolding reusable, modern React component libraries using Rollup, Babel, and create-react-app for local development. It g… | 10 | 4750 | abandoned |
| componentjs/component Component is a vertically integrated frontend package manager and build tool for modular web applications, handling HTML, JS, CSS, images, … | 10 | 4517 | abandoned |
| hashicorp/otto Otto was a HashiCorp CLI tool for simplifying application development and deployment workflows. It was officially decommissioned and is no … | 10 | 4236 | abandoned |
| webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin A deprecated webpack plugin that extracts text (primarily CSS) from a JavaScript bundle into a separate file. It has been superseded by min… | 10 | 3985 | abandoned |
| embarklabs/embark Embark is a JavaScript framework for building and deploying serverless decentralized applications (dApps) on Ethereum, with integrations fo… | 23 | 3766 | abandoned |
| nolanlawson/optimize-js A JavaScript optimization tool that wraps immediately-invoked and likely-to-be-invoked functions in parentheses to speed up initial parsing… | 32 | 3728 | abandoned |
| kriswallsmith/assetic Assetic is a PHP asset management framework for loading, filtering, combining, and dumping web assets like CSS and JavaScript. It provides … | 23 | 3710 | abandoned |
| Swiip/generator-gulp-angular A Yeoman generator that scaffolds AngularJS web applications with a Gulp-based build workflow, letting users pick technologies like Bootstr… | 23 | 3682 | abandoned |
| wmonk/create-react-app-typescript A fork of Create React App (react-scripts-ts) that scaffolds React applications with TypeScript and no build configuration. It is deprecate… | 10 | 3675 | abandoned |
| dotnet/cli The .NET Core command-line (CLI) tools used for building, running, testing, and managing NuGet packages for .NET Core apps and libraries. T… | 10 | 3460 | abandoned |
| felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools An npm package that installs the Visual C++ Build Tools (and optionally Python) on Windows so native Node.js modules can be compiled via no… | 10 | 3407 | abandoned |
| duojs/duo Duo is a front-end package manager and build tool that pulls JavaScript, CSS, and HTML dependencies directly from GitHub with semantic vers… | 10 | 3389 | abandoned |
| kezong/fat-aar-android A Gradle plugin for Android that merges library dependencies (jars and AARs) into a single final AAR artifact, using an `embed` configurati… | 23 | 3285 | abandoned |
| filamentgroup/grunticon Grunticon is a Grunt.js task that converts a folder of SVG/PNG icons into CSS classes using SVG and PNG data URLs, with PNG fallbacks for o… | 10 | 3265 | abandoned |
| AndroidIDE AndroidIDE is a full IDE for building real, Gradle-based Android applications directly on Android devices, with Java/XML language servers, … | 10 | 3201 | abandoned |
| MoOx/phenomic Phenomic is a modular website compiler and static site generator built on the React and Webpack ecosystems, supporting Markdown content and… | 10 | 3167 | abandoned |
| lukeed/pwa A universal Progressive Web App (PWA) builder consisting of a CLI and core configuration module. It scaffolds, develops, builds, and pre-re… | 23 | 3124 | abandoned |
| not-kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer An installer that provides GCC, LLVM, Clang, and developer CLI tools for OS X without requiring a full Xcode installation. It offers pre-bu… | 10 | 3016 | abandoned |
| Distillery Distillery is a pure-Elixir tool that packages Mix projects into self-contained Erlang/OTP releases deployable without an Erlang/Elixir ins… | 32 | 2953 | abandoned |
| dotnet/corert CoreRT is an experimental .NET Core runtime and compiler toolchain optimized for ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, producing native single-f… | 10 | 2882 | abandoned |
| react-webpack-generators/generator-react-webpack A Yeoman generator that scaffolds React projects configured with Webpack, Babel (ES2015), ESLint, and Karma/Mocha testing. It serves as a b… | 23 | 2844 | abandoned |
| spring-attic/spring-native Spring Native was a Spring Boot add-on providing ahead-of-time compilation of Spring applications into GraalVM native images for faster sta… | 10 | 2697 | abandoned |
| spotify/docker-maven-plugin A Maven plugin for building and pushing Docker images from Java projects, capable of generating Dockerfiles from pom.xml configuration. It … | 10 | 2643 | abandoned |
| ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild Community builds of OpenJDK for Windows x86_64, distributed as zip archives and MSI installers for Java 8, 11, and 17 LTS releases. The pro… | 10 | 2542 | abandoned |
| rnpm/rnpm RNPM is a React Native package manager that automates installing and linking native dependencies into iOS and Android projects. It was merg… | 23 | 2503 | abandoned |
| SlexAxton/yepnope.js yepnope.js is a JavaScript script loader for conditionally loading scripts and CSS based on feature tests, historically bundled with Modern… | 32 | 2498 | abandoned |
| Go Package Manager (gopm) Gopm is a package manager and build tool for the Go language that downloads, builds, and installs packages with specific revisions without … | 10 | 2435 | abandoned |
| webpackmonitor/webpackmonitor Webpack Monitor is a configurable Webpack plugin that captures statistics on production builds and provides an interactive analysis tool fo… | 32 | 2396 | abandoned |
| uber-archive/makisu Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes. It … | 10 | 2391 | abandoned |
| s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader A webpack loader that compiles TypeScript files as part of the webpack build pipeline, with Babel integration, caching, and forked type-che… | 10 | 2338 | abandoned |
| twitter-archive/recess RECESS is a CSS code quality tool built on top of LESS, developed at Twitter to enforce styleguide rules. It can lint CSS/LESS files for st… | 10 | 2164 | abandoned |
| Tencent/tmt-workflow Tmt-workflow is a Gulp-based front-end build workflow from Tencent's WeChat team, automating Less/Sass compilation, CSS sprites, image comp… | 23 | 2153 | abandoned |
| GoogleChromeLabs/preload-webpack-plugin A webpack plugin that automatically injects <link rel='preload'> and <link rel='prefetch'> tags for asynchronous JavaScript chunks into HTM… | 10 | 2143 | abandoned |
| constabulary/gb gb is a project-based build tool for the Go programming language, offering a $GOPATH-free workflow where each project is a directory contai… | 10 | 2113 | abandoned |
| tcoopman/image-webpack-loader A webpack loader that minifies PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, and WEBP images using imagemin during the build process. The project is deprecated in f… | 10 | 2013 | abandoned |
| facebookarchive/xcbuild xcbuild is an Xcode-compatible build tool written in C++ that builds Xcode projects and workspaces on macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Ni… | 10 | 2005 | abandoned |
| olov/ng-annotate ng-annotate is a JavaScript tool that adds, removes, and rebuilds AngularJS dependency injection annotations, usable both as a CLI and a li… | 32 | 2002 | abandoned |
| tildeio/helix Helix is a Rust framework for writing native Ruby extension classes in Rust without manual glue code, using a ruby! macro to generate bindi… | 10 | 1992 | abandoned |
| eros Eros is an open-source solution built on top of Weex that lets developers write a single Vue codebase and compile it into native iOS and An… | 32 | 1986 | abandoned |
| Lavas Lavas is a Vue-based PWA solution that scaffolds and builds progressive web apps, handling service workers, app shell generation, and PWA i… | 32 | 1937 | abandoned |
| ElemeFE/cooking Cooking is a modular front-end build tool based on webpack that simplifies configuration with human-friendly parameters and a CLI for scaff… | 10 | 1924 | abandoned |
| nytimes/kyt kyt is a web app configuration toolkit from The New York Times that encapsulates build, dev server, testing, and linting setup for JavaScri… | 66 | 1912 | abandoned |