# List of JavaScript Build Tools

[Yet another framework syndrome](http://blog.tastejs.com/yet-another-framework-syndrome-yafs)

| Name | Date | URL | Stars |
| ---- | ---- | --- | :---: |
| Jake | April 2010 | https://github.com/mde/jake | 866
| Brunch | January 2011 | http://brunch.io/ | 3359
| ~~smoosh~~ | ~~March 2011~~ | ~~https://github.com/fat/smoosh~~ | ~~318~~
| ~~anvil.js~~ | ~~February 2012~~ | ~~http://anviljs.com/~~ | ~~160~~
| Grunt | March 2012 | http://gruntjs.com/ | 7573
| ~~Gear.js~~ | ~~May 2012?~~ | ~~http://gearjs.org/~~ | ~~60~~
| ~~buildr~~ | ~~October 2012~~ | ~~https://github.com/balupton/buildr~~ | ~~212~~
| mimosa | December 2012 | http://mimosa.io/ | 335
| modjs | December 2012 | http://madscript.com/modjs/ | 364
| ~~automaton~~ | ~~January 2013~~ | ~~http://indigounited.com/automaton~~ | ~~198 before deletion~~
| ~~james.js~~ | ~~March 2013~~ | ~~https://github.com/leonidas/james.js~~ | ~~29~~
| Bud | April 2013 | https://github.com/azer/bud | 98
| Gulp | September 2013 | http://gulpjs.com/ | 4950
| simplebuild | December 2013 | https://github.com/jamesshore/simplebuild | 6
| Brocolli | February 2014 | https://github.com/joliss/broccoli | 797
| Fez | February 2014 | http://fez.github.io/ | 252

And these are just the ones *written in JavaScript*.

Projects which haven't had commits in the last couple months are ~~strikethrough~~.