buildpacks-jvm
Heroku's Cloud Native Buildpacks for JVM applications. (by heroku)
buildpacks-nodejs
Heroku's Cloud Native Buildpacks for Node.js applications. (by heroku)
| buildpacks-jvm | buildpacks-nodejs | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 9 | 25 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.7 | 9.3 | |
| 6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
buildpacks-jvm
Posts with mentions or reviews of buildpacks-jvm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-31.
- Free alternatives to Heroku with free SQL database
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Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
They may already have, looks like that archived repository has been replaced with: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-java
which doesn't even use go.
And they'd like you to even move away from that replacement to an ever newer replacement: https://github.com/heroku/buildpacks-jvm
buildpacks-nodejs
Posts with mentions or reviews of buildpacks-nodejs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-11.
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Have You Heard About Cloud Native Buildpacks?
What if you need to configure something inside the buildpack? For this, you would reference the buildpack(s) that were selected by your builder. For example, for my Next.js app, I can see in the logs that the builder selected two buildpacks: nodejs-engine and nodejs-yarn.
- An open-source alternative to Heroku based on Kubernetes and Istio
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12 Things You Might Not Know About Buildpacks
The Paketo Buildpacks are mostly written in Go, while the Heroku buildpacks are written in Bash and Rust. The libcnb library is a Go language binding of the Cloud Native Buildpacks API. It's supported by the project, but there are also libraries outside of the project like libcnb.bash.
- Free alternatives to Heroku with free SQL database
What are some alternatives?
When comparing buildpacks-jvm and buildpacks-nodejs you can also consider the following projects:
java-buildpack - Heroku Cloud Native Buildpack for Java
ny - 🗽 Fast, Proxy Package Manager for JavaScript
heroku-buildpack-java - Heroku's classic buildpack for Java applications.
moon - A build system and monorepo management tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust.
camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers
cutlass - Write CNB integration tests for Pack in Ruby with cutlass