pkg

Package Node.js projects into standalone executables for distribution.

Build tools and bundlers npm MIT

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Used in agent projects

0.1% of 4,818 JS/TS repos built with AI coding agents

Gid Score

26 /100

#3684 of 3,794 tools, #159 in build tools and bundlers · ranking

In the catalog because

Public numbers

downloads and GitHub stars, added Oct 20, 2026; too rare in our project count to rank by use

Downloads

232K

npm, last 7 days, @yao-pkg/pkg

GitHub stars

929

71 forks · last push Oct 16, 2026

How pkg is used

pkg joined the catalog on its public numbers (232,097 downloads a week on npm and 929 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 7 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is esbuild (290 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (71.4%), Playwright (JavaScript) (57.1%), Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) (42.9%).

Often used with pkg

Vitest	71.4% of pkg projects · 3.5× more than average
Playwright (JavaScript)	57.1% of pkg projects · 3.3× more than average
Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript)	42.9% of pkg projects · 4.5× more than average
Agent Client Protocol SDK	42.9% of pkg projects · 71.9× more than average
Testing Library	42.9% of pkg projects · 4.2× more than average
@xterm/addon-fit	42.9% of pkg projects · 76.0× more than average
xterm.js	42.9% of pkg projects · 70.0× more than average
esbuild	42.9% of pkg projects · 9.2× more than average

How pkg is funded

Most funded tools

GitHub Sponsors

@robertsLando	33 current sponsors

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Ways to fund pkg

GitHub Sponsors Patreon Liberapay Ko-fi Own page Own page

As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Install

Package	`npm install @yao-pkg/pkg`
Main stacks	TypeScript / JavaScript (7)
Example projects	vakovalskii/NeuralDeskApp, cin12211/orca-q

Alternatives to pkg

All build tools and bundlers

Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside pkg are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".

Tool	Gid Score	Used in agent projects	Downloads / wk	GitHub stars	License
esbuild npm Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go.	82	290 (6.0%)	184M	40.1K	MIT

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