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vanilla-cookbookvsverdaccio

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

vanilla-cookbookverdaccio
Score46/10076/100
Rank in category#13 of 18 in Recipe Management#1 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars15817 956
Stars, last 30 days+0+57
Stable releases, 12 months1329
Latest releasev1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026v7.0.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

verdaccio scores 76/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

verdaccio ships more often: 29 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

verdaccio is growing faster right now (+57 stars in 30 days).

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