Maven is a project development management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model: builds, dependency management, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the declarative file. Maven can be extended by plugins to utilise a number of other development tools for reporting or the build process.

Apache Maven - Project Management and Comprehension Tool

steal is unique because it can load JavaScript modules defined in ES6, AMD, and CommonJS formats (unlike most other module loaders, which only support one of these formats at a time). In JavaScript, the word "modules" refers to small units of independent, reusable code. They are the foundation of many JavaScript design patterns, and can look like this in ES6.

Steal - Universal module loader

Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset. 
<ul>
<li>Bundles <a href="http://www.2ality.com/2014/09/es6-modules-final.html" rel="nofollow">ES Modules</a>, <a href="http://wiki.commonjs.org/" rel="nofollow">CommonJS</a> and <a href="https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD">AMD</a> modules (even combined).</li>
<li>Can create a single bundle or multiple chunks that are asynchronously loaded at runtime (to reduce initial loading time).</li>
<li>Dependencies are resolved during compilation, reducing the runtime size.</li>
<li>Loaders can preprocess files while compiling, e.g. TypeScript to JavaScript, Handlebars strings to compiled functions, images to Base64, etc.</li>
<li>Highly modular plugin system to do whatever else your application requires.</li>
</ul>

Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset. 

Webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends

Buildah - a tool that facilitates building Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images. The Buildah package provides a command line tool that can be used to Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image, Images can be built in either the OCI image format or the traditional upstream docker image format, Mount / Unmount / Delete / Rename the container.

Buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images

Meson is a project to create the best possible next-generation build system. It is optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness. It supports cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal. It has built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages.




Meson - The Build System

Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. It is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. 
 
It contains out of box support for: 
<ul>
<li>Amazon EC2 (AMI). Both EBS-backed and instance-store AMIs</li>
<li>Azure</li>
<li>CloudStack</li>
<li>DigitalOcean</li>
<li>Docker</li>
<li>Google Compute Engine</li>
<li>Hyper-V</li>
<li>1&amp;1</li>
<li>OpenStack</li>
<li>Parallels</li>
<li>ProfitBricks</li>
<li>QEMU. Both KVM and Xen images.</li>
<li>Triton (Joyent Public Cloud)</li>
<li>VMware</li>
<li>VirtualBox</li>
</ul>

Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. It  is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. 

Packer -  Build Automated Machine Images

Buildbot is a continuous integration system designed to automate the build/test cycle. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. It supports arbitrary build processes, and is not limited to common build processes for particular languages. Buildbot has a variety of status-reporting tools to get information about builds in a timely manner.
 
Buildbot supports distributed, parallel execution of jobs across multiple platforms, flexible integration with version-control systems, extensive status reporting, and more. At its core, Buildbot is a job scheduling system: it queues jobs, executes the jobs when the required resources are available, and reports the results. 
 
Buildbot is used in a number of high-profile open-source projects, including Chromium, WebKit, Firefox, Python, and Twisted.

Buildbot is a continuous integration system designed to automate the build/test cycle. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. It supports arbitrary build processes, and is not limited to common build processes for particular languages. Buildbot has a variety of status-reporting tools to get information about builds in a timely manner.

Buildbot - Continuous Integration Framework

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment. A comprehensive, built-in set of rules lets you build software for a wide variety of languages and platforms right out of the box.

Bazel - Google's own build tool

Cake (C# Make) is a build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and build NuGet packages. Cake is built on top of the Roslyn compiler which enables you to write your build scripts in C#. It supports the most common tools used during builds such as MSBuild, MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, NuGet, ILMerge, WiX and SignTool out of the box. 

Cake - (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system

Parcel is a blazing fast zero configuration web application bundler. It automatically transforms modules using Babel, PostCSS, and PostHTML when needed - even node_modules. It has out of the box support for JS, CSS, HTML, file assets, and more - no plugins to install.
 
Parcel supports many languages and file types out of the box, from web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to assets like images, fonts, videos, and more. And when you use a file type that isn't included by default, Parcel will automatically install all of the necessary plugins and dev dependencies for you. It supports hot reloading, when you make a change, Parcel automatically updates your code in the browser – no page reload necessary. It also integrates with React Fast Refresh and the Vue Hot Reloading API to automatically preserve your application state between updates.
 
Parcel builds your code in parallel using worker threads, utilizing all of the cores on your machine. Everything is cached, so you never build the same code twice.

Parcel is a blazing fast zero configuration web application bundler. It automatically transforms modules using Babel, PostCSS, and PostHTML when needed - even node_modules. It has out of the box support for JS, CSS, HTML, file assets, and more - no plugins to install.



Parcel - Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler

Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. It reimagines build system techniques used by Facebook and Google to remove maintenance burden and overhead. It will remember what you've built and skip the stuff that's already been computed.



Turborepo - The High-performance Build System for JavaScript & TypeScript Codebases

Nx is a next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations. Nx builds a project graph by analyzing your workspace, which it then uses to only rebuild what is necessary and to never run the same computation twice. 
 
Nx comes with an interactive dependency diagram to help explore and understand your workspace. It provides a modern integrated dev experience. It has a high-quality VS Code plugin, interactive visualizations, GitHub integration and more.

Nx is a next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations. Nx builds a project graph by analyzing your workspace, which it then uses to only rebuild what is necessary and to never run the same computation twice. 

Nx - Smart, Fast and Extensible Build System

The WiX Toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine.
The core of WiX is a set of build tools that build Windows Installer packages using the same build concepts as the rest of your product: source code is compiled and then linked to create executables; in this case .exe setup bundles, .msi installation packages, .msm merge modules, and .msp patches. The WiX command-line build tools work with any automated build system. Also, MSBuild is supported from the command line, Visual Studio, and common CI/CD build systems like GitHub Actions.
WiX includes several extensions that offer functionality beyond that of Windows Installer. For example, WiX can install IIS web sites, create SQL Server databases, and register exceptions in the Windows Firewall, among others.
With Burn, the WiX bootstrapper, you can create setup bundles that install prerequisites like the .NET Framework and other runtimes along with your own product. Burn lets you download packages or combine them into a single downloadable .exe.
The WiX SDK includes managed and native libraries that make it easier to write code that works with Windows Installer, including custom actions in both C# and C++.

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

WiX Toolset - Toolset to create Windows Installer

Buck is a build system for Android that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources. Because Android applications are predominantly written in Java, Buck also functions as a Java build system. Buck builds independent artifacts in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores. Further, it reduces incremental build times by keeping track of unchanged modules so that the minimal set of modules is rebuilt.

Buck - An Android build tool from Facebook

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity. Machines are provisioned on top of VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, or any other provider. Then, industry-standard provisioning tools such as shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet, can be used to automatically install and configure software on the machine. 

Vagrant - Automatic Deployment Tool

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