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Lerna vs Dagger
Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.
Developer Tools
Lerna
Monorepo management for JavaScript
67%
Panel ship
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Community
Free
Entry
Lerna manages JavaScript monorepos with package versioning, publishing, and dependency management. Now maintained by Nx team with modern build caching.
Developer Tools
Dagger
Programmable CI/CD engine
100%
Panel ship
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Community
Free
Entry
Dagger lets you write CI/CD pipelines in your programming language — TypeScript, Python, Go. Runs locally and in any CI. No more YAML.
Reviewer scorecard
“Revived by the Nx team and better than ever. The standard for publishing multiple npm packages from a monorepo.”
“CI pipelines in TypeScript instead of YAML. Local execution means you can debug pipelines on your machine.”
“Was nearly dead, but Nx's stewardship brought it back. For npm publishing workflows, it's still the go-to.”
“The YAML-to-code migration for CI is overdue. Dagger's approach of real programming languages is correct.”
“Nx and Turborepo are the future of monorepo tooling. Lerna is a legacy tool that works but isn't innovating.”
“CI/CD in real programming languages will replace YAML. Dagger is leading this inevitable transition.”
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