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Build-tools projects on GitHub

Tools that compile and build projects, such as scaffolding CLIs and bundlers

As of , the most-starred Build-tools projects on GitHub are create-react-app (103.2K stars), babel (44.1K stars) and snowpack (19.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 Build-tools repositories with 208.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was create-react-app, with +7 stars in a day.

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208.2KStars in total
+16Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+7

create-react-app

react/create-react-app · ★ 103.2K

Create React App is a command-line tool that sets up a new React single-page app with zero build configuration, preconfiguring webpack, Babel, ESLint, and a test runner for you.

+7

kache

kunobi-ninja/kache · ★ 1.2K

Kache is a compiler cache for Rust, C/C++, and CUDA. It keys every build by the content of its inputs, so code compiled once is restored instead of rebuilt in your next worktree, branch, or CI run.

+2

babel

babel/babel · ★ 44.1K

Babel is a compiler for JavaScript: you write code with the newest language features, and it compiles it down to a version your target environments can actually run.

The all-time top

7 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · react/create-react-app

    create-react-app

    Create React App is a command-line tool that sets up a new React single-page app with zero build configuration, preconfiguring webpack, Babel, ESLint, and a test runner for you.

    103.2K
  2. #2 · babel/babel

    babel

    Babel is a compiler for JavaScript: you write code with the newest language features, and it compiles it down to a version your target environments can actually run.

    44.1K
  3. #3 · FredKSchott/snowpack

    snowpack

    Snowpack is a fast frontend build tool that leverages JavaScript's native module system (ESM) to serve code during development without bundling it first.

    19.3K
  1. 4

    less.js

    17Kless/less.js · JavaScript

    Less is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends CSS with variables, mixins, nesting and functions, and Less.js is its official compiler written in JavaScript; this repo is the Less.js monorepo.

  2. 5

    UglifyJS

    13.4Kmishoo/UglifyJS · JavaScript

    UglifyJS is a toolkit for JavaScript that parses, minifies, compresses, mangles, and beautifies code, mainly used to shrink JS files for production.

  3. 6

    webpack-howto

    10Kpetehunt/webpack-howto · JavaScript

    A cookbook-style guide explaining how to get practical things done with webpack, based on what Instagram actually used, meant as an alternative starting point to the official docs.

  4. 7

    kache

    1.2Kkunobi-ninja/kache · Rust

    Kache is a compiler cache for Rust, C/C++, and CUDA. It keys every build by the content of its inputs, so code compiled once is restored instead of rebuilt in your next worktree, branch, or CI run.

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