sbt-release vs sbt-assembly

sbt-release

A release plugin for sbt (by sbt)

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sbt-assembly

Deploy über-JARs. Restart processes. (port of codahale/assembly-sbt) (by sbt)

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sbt-release		sbt-assembly
	Project
-	Mentions	6
638	Stars	1,933
0.0%	Growth	0.1%
7.3	Activity	6.6
16 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Scala	Language	Scala
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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sbt-assembly

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt-assembly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Trouble with sbt-native-packager
2 projects | /r/scala | 7 Dec 2023

sbt-assembly is still my go-to. So what I'd prefer is the combination of sbt-assembly (to build my .jar that I can just java -jar anytime I want) and sbt-jib (to construct my OCI image including my assembly .jar for deployment in some container orchestration environment).
sbt-assembly 2.0.0-RC1 released
1 project | /r/scala | 1 May 2022
SBT error when running package application: java.lang.RuntimeException: No main class detected.
3 projects | /r/scala | 9 Jun 2021

You may also use sbt-assembly to produce an uber JAR that embeds the Scala stdlib together with your code, which means that now for running your program you only need a JRE like java -jar app-assembly.jar. This option is great because now if you start adding dependencies to your project those are also included in this massive JAR.
Welcome to JAR Hell, Part 2: Deployment Strategies
2 projects | /r/scala | 15 Apr 2021

Sbt-assembly defaults to silently concatenating configs. But even if it didn't, the configs wouldn't be in any particular order when resolving.
How to handle sbt deduplication errors on module-info.class files
1 project | /r/scala | 12 Mar 2021

Ticket of record is https://github.com/sbt/sbt-assembly/issues/391
Building native images and compiling with GraalVM and sbt
3 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2020

With the sbt-assembly plugin you can create JAR-files with all of its dependencies (fat JARs). sbt assembly creates this target/scala-2.12/apply-at-vdb-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar which has a size of around 42MB:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sbt-release and sbt-assembly you can also consider the following projects:

sbt-native-packager - sbt Native Packager

sbt-pack - A sbt plugin for creating distributable Scala packages.

coursier - Pure Scala Artifact Fetching

sbt-sonatype - A sbt plugin for publishing Scala/Java projects to the Maven central.

sbt-docker - Create Docker images directly from sbt

better-monadic-for - Desugaring scala `for` without implicit `withFilter`s

sbt-dependency-check - SBT Plugin for OWASP DependencyCheck. Monitor your dependencies and report if there are any publicly known vulnerabilities (e.g. CVEs). :rainbow:

scala-clippy - Good advice for Scala compiler errors

sbt-buildinfo - I know this because build.sbt knows this.

ScalaKata2 - Interactive Playground