# JSR 10 Hacker News commenters recommended JSR and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended as a cleaner, easier registry for publishing and finding TypeScript packages, and open source enough to fork. Critics note publishing limits and another registry alongside npm. ## Why people recommend it - Cleaner, more modern package ecosystem (4 comments): "JSR (which is open source and at least a little bit more resistant to consolidation relative to npm)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981233)) "JSR is still the best way I know to find modern and up-to-date/clean packages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022546)) "I'm also happy that JSR exists as that (mostly) cleaner ecosystem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237790)) - Default registry for Deno (3 comments): "I was quite happy for jsr to become the defacto registry for the Deno ecosystem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241233)) "Will stick to deno and JSR for my JS needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992170)) "I kind of like JSR a lot myself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015564)) - Better than npm or importmaps (3 comments): "One of the things I've started leaning on more is prioritizing packages from JSR" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035261)) "JSR is still an improvement over managing an importmap yourself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251597)) "JSR is a great upgrade from NPM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016316)) - Open source, free to fork (2 comments): "it being open source and free for the community to fork and rebuild in case something like this goes south" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022611)) "JSR (which is open source and at least a little bit more resistant to consolidation relative to npm)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981233)) ## What people warn about - Publishing restricted to GitHub accounts (2 comments): "the only way to publish to it was through a GitHub account" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540892)) "the restrictions were so tight I gave up" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024391)) - Adds another registry alongside npm (2 comments): "they tried to support node syntax out of the box with npm import specifiers and create a new javascript registry (jsr.io)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025125)) "Another registry (looks like jsr.io)?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879396)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Nixpkgs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nixpkgs.md): 38 recommend - [Arch User Repository](https://hackerapproved.com/p/arch-user-repository.md): 34 recommend - [Arch User Repository](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aur.md): 20 recommend - [crates.io](https://hackerapproved.com/p/crates-io.md): 17 recommend - [PyPI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pypi.md): 16 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://jsr.io/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "JSR", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jsr/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).