# unjs/upm

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 87 total · +49 stars today, ≈ 62 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-23 · Last push: 2026-09-28
- GitHub: https://github.com/unjs/upm · Homepage: https://upm.sh · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/unjs/upm

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 6
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 17 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v1.1.0 (2026-09-27)

## Stars per day, last 9 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-28: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 37, 49

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #187

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-28 18:44 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.