Chocolatey vs. npm

Chocolatey

Chocolatey

4 Reviews and Ratings

npm

npm

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Chocolatey	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows designed to make complex tasks simple, from Chocolatey Software in Topeka. The vendor states Chocolatey can easily handle all aspects of package management, but it is also able to work well within the existing ecosystem that is Windows software management.	N/A
npm	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	npm is an open source web registry used to discover, share, and reuse packages of code. Commercial plans offer additional features.	$0 for unlimited public packages

Pricing

Chocolatey

npm

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Free: $0
for unlimited public packages
Pro: $7
per month
Team: $7
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Chocolatey	npm
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Chocolatey	npm
Considered Both Products	Chocolatey Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Chose Chocolatey The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Chocolatey On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages. Incentivized Helpful?	npm Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Chose npm It is open source and easy to utilize and it is simply worked for me. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Chocolatey	npm
Small Businesses	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Chocolatey	npm
Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Chocolatey	npm
Likelihood to Recommend	Chocolately is perfect if you need a robust, well-supported (by the community) package manager. It has basically every major library/tool that you need to do development. I used it specifically in UI test automation. Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	[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. Incentivized Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Read full review
Pros	Package management Dependency management Ease of use Availability of libs Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	We can easily use it to install packages Incentivized Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Read full review
Cons	Available software to install is not easy to find. You need admin rights to install all software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Need to install dependencies for the particular package managers. Incentivized Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is open source and easy to utilize and it is simply worked for me. Incentivized Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	Improved time to setup new machines Improved security due to easy update process of installed software Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Yeah it is dependent it cause of without NPM angular doesn't work Incentivized Mihir Patel Senior Frontend Developer Read full review
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