Begit

A smaller and lighter degit alternative with typescript support.

Features

Fast
- Caches results by default so nothing is refetched unnecessarily
Small
- Only 13.1kB unpacked on npm (actual source code is more like 1.4kB minified)
Fault-tolerant
- Can recover from a corrupted cache file
XDG Friendly
- Respects XDG directories
Minimal Dependencies
- Only has a single dependency (tar) for extracting the downloaded tarballs