5 alternatives to zx

google/zx — A tool for writing better scripts (45,815 stars, Apache-2.0, cli, dev-tools, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 31 licence-cleared components from google/zx itself.

The alternatives in detail

• sindresorhus/execa
  Process execution for humans
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 7,636 stars · 234 components · search them
• yassinebenaid/bunster
  Compile shell scripts to static binaries.
  score 4.5/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 2,677 stars · 51 components · search them
• shelljs/shelljs
  :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
  score 4.8/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 14,400 stars · 33 components · search them
• jbangdev/jbang
  Unleash the power of Java - JBang Lets Students, Educators and Professional Developers create, edit and run self-contained source-only Java programs with unprecedented ease.
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 1,887 stars · 204 components · search them
• ehmicky/nve
  Run any command on specific Node.js versions
  score 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 713 stars · 15 components · search them

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