8 alternatives to yarn
yarnpkg/yarn — The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry (41,462 stars, BSD-2-Clause, dev-tools, cli, 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 174 licence-cleared components from yarnpkg/yarn itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antfu-collective/ni | 6.7 | MIT | 8,320 |
| 2 | react-native-community/cli | 6.2 | MIT | 2,941 |
| 3 | sindresorhus/np | 6.7 | MIT | 7,717 |
| 4 | devolutions/unigetui | 6.9 | MIT | 26,747 |
| 5 | openapitools/openapi-generator-cli | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 1,992 |
| 6 | donfear/inup | 5.4 | MIT | 32 |
| 7 | orassayag/auto-packages-updater | 5.0 | MIT | 1 |
| 8 | mkabumattar/react-highlight-syntax | 4.7 | MIT | 2 |
The alternatives in detail
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💡 Use the right package managerscore 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 8,320 stars · 24 components · search them
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The React Native Community CLI — Command line tools to help you build React Native appsscore 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 2,941 stars · 188 components · search them
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A better `npm publish`score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 7,717 stars · 22 components · search them
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UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managersscore 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 26,747 stars · 579 components · search them
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A node package wrapper for https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generatorscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,992 stars · 10 components · search them
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Interactive dependency upgrader for npm, yarn, pnpm & bun. Changelogs, vulnerability audit, monorepo & pnpm catalogs, zero-config.score 5.4/10 · MIT permissive · 32 stars · 131 components · search them
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A Node.js automation tool to scan multiple projects for outdated NPM packages and automatically update them with Git integration. Built in April 2021 (Updated 2026). This application reads project configs from a JSON filscore 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 1 stars · 34 components · search them
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React Highlight Syntax is a React component that highlights syntax in a code block.score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 2 stars · 8 components · search them
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