unjs/upm
📦 A fast, tiny package manager for the npm registry, written in TypeScript.
About the project
A fast, tiny package manager for the npm registry written in TypeScript, built on Node.js builtins. It positions itself as a lightweight alternative to npm, pnpm and Yarn that can be embedded into other tools.
Useful for
- Install project dependencies with upm i instead of npm install
- Embed npm dependency installation into a custom Node.js tool via the programmatic API
- Run a package binary without installing it using upx cowsay hello
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 49 stars so far today, about 61 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 5 days old and already has 87 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #187.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 87
- Today
- 49 · ≈ 62 by evening
- Forks
- 1
- Issues and pull requests
- 6
- Watchers
- 2
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v1.1.0 · September 27, 2026
- Created
- September 23, 2026
- Last push
- September 28, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 28, 2026Top new repositories this week: #187
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