Apache Maven vs. npm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Maven
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Apache Maven is an open source build automation tool.N/A
npm
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
npm, Inc in Oakland boasts over 10 million software developers worldwide using their open source software and web registry to discover, share, and reuse packages of code. Additionally, npm’s paid products offer teams and companies ways to organize, share, and secure code, integrate npm with testing and deployment tools, and bring code reuse into the enterprise. The vendor states companies including BBC, Coinbase, eBay, Electronic Arts, Nvidia, and Slack use npm.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.6 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.6 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.6 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Apache Mavennpm
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(14 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
5.1
(3 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Apache Mavennpm
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
Maven is great if you have an application with a lot of third-party dependencies and don’t want each developer to keep track of where the dependency can be downloaded. It’s also a great way to make it easy for a new developer to be able to build the application. It’s less suitable for simple projects without any third-party dependencies.
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npm, Inc
[npm]is well suited while we use it to install packages to windows, it is used to start the project from scratch to install dependencies.
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Pros
Apache
  • If you are building in the Java ecosystem, then Maven definitely has the biggest repository of artifacts needed for such projects.
  • It has a very simple to use extendable architecture. Everything is configurable through the Pom.xml file which is very simple to follow.
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npm, Inc
  • We can easily use it to install packages
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Cons
Apache
  • Maven provides a very rigid model that makes customization tedious and sometimes impossible. While this can make it easier to understand any given Maven build, as long as you don’t have any special requirements, it also makes it unsuitable for many automation problems.
  • Maven has few, built-in dependency scopes, which forces awkward module architectures in common scenarios like using test fixtures or code generation. There is no separation between unit and integration tests
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npm, Inc
  • Need to install dependencies for the particular package managers.
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Usability
Apache
The overall usability of Apache Maven is very good to us. We were able to incorporate it into our company's build process pretty quickly. We deployed it to multiple teams throughout the entire enterprise. We got good feedback from our developers stating that Apache Maven has simplified their build process. It also allowed to to standardize the build process for the entire enterprise, thus ensure that each development team is using the same, consistent process to build code.
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npm, Inc
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Support Rating
Apache
I can't speak to the support, as I've never had issues. Apache Maven "just works," and errors were user errors or local nexus errors. Apache Maven is a great build/dependency management tool. I give it a 9/10 because occasionally the error message don't immediately indicate a solution...but again, those errors were always user or configuration errors, and the Maven documentation is extensive, so I don't find fault in Maven, but in its users.
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npm, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
Ant, Maven's opposing framework, is often a point of comparison. Although Ant does not require formal conventions, it is procedural in the sense that you must tell Ant exactly what to do and when. It also lacks a lifecycle, along with goal definition and dependencies. Maven, on the other hand, requires less work as it knows exactly where your source code is as long as the pom.xml file is generated.
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npm, Inc
It is open source and easy to utilize and it is simply worked for me.
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Apache Maven is an open source product from the Apache Software Foundation. Being free to use without any licensing constraints, we've been very happy with this product thus far.
  • The software build and packaging times for our applications have improved greatly since our use of this tool.
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npm, Inc
  • Yeah it is dependent it cause of without NPM angular doesn't work
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